Pago Pago

Pago Pago

English

Alternative forms

• Pango Pango

Etymology

Borrowed from Samoan [Term?].

Pronunciation

• enPR: pängʹō pängʹō

Proper noun

Pago Pago

1. The territorial capital of American Samoa.
   • [1845, Wilkes, Charles, “Samoan Group. Rose Island. Tutuila.”, in Narrative of the United States' Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842‎, Condensed and Abridged edition, London: Whittaker and Co., OCLC 1170048173, page 93, column 1:

     The climate of Tutuila is mild and agreeable, particularly at Pago-pago, where the temperature is lower than it is elsewhere on the island, in consequence of its generally being overshadowed with clouds that hang on the high land.]

   • 1971, Johnson, Lyndon, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 360:

     From Honolulu we went to Pago Pago in Samoa. We saw there how an educational revolution could be brought about on a Pacific island by the use of classroom television.

   • 2022 January 15, Jahnavi Nidumolu; Renju Jose; Chang-Ran Kim, “Tonga volcano eruption triggers tsunami warnings in Japan, Pacific islands”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 15 January 2022, Environment:

     Tsunami waves of 83 cm (2.7 feet) were recorded by gauges in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa and two-foot waves were seen at Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

Translations

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Chinese: Mandarin: 帕果帕果 (zh) (Pàguǒ Pàguǒ) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “Pago Pago”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Pago Pago, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Pago Pago at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Pago Pago”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Pago Pago” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.