High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Savai?i is the largest island in Samoa and the biggest landmass in Polynesia outside Hawaii and New Zealand. The island of Savai'i is also referred to by Samoans as Salafai, a classical Samoan term used in oratory and prose. Savai'i is home to approximately 43,000 (2006) people who make up about a third of Samoa's population. A tar sealed road serves as the one main highway on the island, connecting most of the villages with local buses reaching most settlements. Savai'i is made up of six it?m?l? (political districts). Each district is made up of villages with strong traditional ties of kinship, history, land and matai chief titles.