AS — American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated US territory in the South Pacific, consisting of five main islands and two coral atolls. Pago Pago, on the island of Tutuila, is the capital. American Samoa is the southernmost US territory and one of the few places where residents are US nationals but not US citizens by birth. It uses the US Dollar. For developers, the AS country code and .as domain have been used for domain hacking (as in 'alias'). The +1-684 follows the North American Numbering Plan. The en-AS and sm-AS locales handle English and Samoan respectively. American Samoa's unique citizenship status (nationals, not citizens) creates identity verification edge cases. The .as domain has been popular for URL shortening and domain hacking. American Samoa is in the UTC-11 timezone, making it one of the last places on Earth to enter each new day — important for deadline and time-sensitive applications with global scope.