Editing German Samoa (section)

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{{Short description|German colony in Oceania (1900–1920)}}
{{Infobox country
| native_name            = ''Königreich Samoa'' ([[German language|German]])<br>''Malo Kaisalika'' ([[Samoan language|Samoan]]) 
| conventional_long_name = German Samoa
| common_name            = 
| status                 = Protectorate of [[German colonial empire|Germany]]
| empire                 = Germany
| year_start             = 1900
| year_end               = 1920
| date_start             = 1 March
| date_end               = 17 December
| event_start            = [[New Guinea Company|Colonization]]
| event_end              = League mandate
| event1                 = [[Occupation of German Samoa|NZ occupation]]
| date_event1            = 30 August 1914
| event2                 = [[Treaty of Versailles]]
| date_event2            = 10 January 1920
| event_pre              = [[Tripartite Convention]]
| date_pre               = 2 December 1899
| p1                     = Kingdom of Samoa
| s1                     = Western Samoa Trust Territory
| s2                     = Dominion of New Zealand
| flag_p1                = Flag of Tuiaana line 1873-1887 1889-1900.svg
| stat_year1             = 1912
| stat_area1             = {{convert|1093.055|mi2|km2|0|disp=number}}
| stat_pop1              = 33,500
| flag_s1                = Flag of the Samoa Trust Territory.svg
| flag_s2                = Flag of New Zealand.svg
| image_flag             = Reichskolonialflagge.svg
| flag_type              = Service flag of the colonial office
| image_coat             = Wappen Deutsches Reich - Reichsadler 1889.svg
| symbol_type            = Coat of arms of the German Empire
| image_map              = German Pacific.svg
| image_map_caption      = Brown: German New Guinea; yellow: German Pacific protectorates; red: German Samoa; orange: North Solomons, ceded to Britain
| capital                = [[Apia]]
| common_languages       = [[German language|German]] (official, administration) [[Samoan language|Samoan]] (<small>native</small>)
| title_leader           = Tupu Sili (ruler of Samoa)
| leader1                = [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]]
| year_leader1           = 1900–1919
| title_deputy           = Governor
| deputy1                = [[Wilhelm Solf]]
| year_deputy1           = 1900–1911
| deputy2                = [[Erich Schultz-Ewerth]]
| year_deputy2           = 1911–1919
| era                    = German colonization in the Pacific Ocean
| currency               = [[German gold mark|Goldmark]]
| demonym                = 
| area_km2               = 
| area_rank              = 
| GDP_PPP                = 
| GDP_PPP_year           = 
| HDI                    = 
| HDI_year               = 
| today                  = 
| life_span              = 1900–1920
}}

'''German Samoa''' officially '''Malo Kaisalika / Kingdom of Samoa''' ({{langx|de|Königreich Samoa}}; [[Samoan language|Samoan]]: ''Malo Kaisalika'')<ref>Official Hand-Held stamp, C. 1900</ref><ref>Centre for Samoan Studies; Malama Meleisea, Lagaga short history of Samoa, Chapter 7.</ref><ref>O Le Sulu Samoa, 12 December 1905</ref> was a [[German Empire|German]] [[protectorate]] from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of [[Upolu]], [[Savai'i]], [[Apolima]] and [[Manono Island|Manono]], now wholly within the Independent State of [[Samoa]], formerly ''Western Samoa''.  Samoa was the last German colonial acquisition in the [[Pacific basin]], received following the [[Tripartite Convention]] signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900.<ref name=GHR>Ryden, George Herbert. ''The Foreign Policy of the United States in Relation to Samoa''. New York: Octagon Books, 1975. (Reprint by special arrangement with Yale University Press. Originally published at New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928), p. 574; the Tripartite Convention (United States, Germany, Great Britain) was signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900</ref><ref>Flag raising at Mulinuʻu Point was 1 March 1900</ref>  It was the only German colony in the Pacific, aside from the [[Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory]] in [[Qing dynasty|China]], that was administered separately from [[German New Guinea]].