Fitiʻuta County

Fitiʻuta County is an administrative county in the Manu'a District of American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific (counties in American Samoa are minor civil divisions used by the U.S. Census Bureau for population and housing statistics). Fitiʻuta is one of three counties on Taʻū Island, alongside Faleāsao and Taʻū counties, and it includes the villages of Leusoaliʻi and Maia.

The name Fitiʻuta is derived from Samoan language elements: Fiti (referring to Fiji) and uta (meaning “land behind” or inland). In Samoan traditional geography, uta describes areas inland from the coast (tai), and the combined form is commonly interpreted as “Inland Fiji.”

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