Pago Pago (English spelling)

Japanese: パゴ・パゴ(英語表記)Pago Pago
Pago Pago (English spelling)
The capital of American Samoa in Polynesia, South Pacific. It is located at the head of Pago Pago Bay, on the southeast coast of Tutuila Island. Pago Pago is actually the name of the bay and a village on the bay. The United States formally acquired Eastern Samoa in 1899 for the purpose of building a naval base here, as it is a good natural harbor. For about half a century, it prospered as a military port, but after World War II, its strategic necessity disappeared, and today it is a base for deep-sea fishing and has a fish cannery operated by major American capital. Since the days of the naval port, the area around the bay has become the central city of American Samoa, with the government office, commercial center, hospital, library, and hotels concentrated there, and it is home to more than 10,000 people, more than one-third of the island's population.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
南太平洋,ポリネシアのアメリカ領サモアの主都。トゥトゥイラ島南東岸,パゴ・パゴ湾の湾奥にある。パゴ・パゴは,本来はこの湾および湾岸の一村の名である。天然の良港で,ここに海軍基地を建設する目的でアメリカは東サモアを1899年正式に領有した。その後約半世紀間,軍港が置かれて栄えたが,第2次大戦後戦略上の必要性も消え,今日では遠洋漁業の基地となり,アメリカ大資本の魚の缶詰工場が進出している。湾周辺は軍港時代以来,行政府や商業センター,病院,図書館,ホテルなどが集中してアメリカ領サモアの中心市街地となっており,島の人口の1/3をこえる1万人以上が住んでいる。

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