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The vast majority of the population in Samoa is of Polynesian heritage. Approximately nine-tenths of the country's residents are ethnic Samoans. The remainder of the population consists primarily of Euronesiansāindividuals of mixed European and Polynesian ancestryāalong with a very small percentage of people of wholly European descent.1