Same (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsamɛ]) is a town in the Same administrative post in the interior of East Timor, 81 kilometres (50 mi) south of Dili, the national capital.

Same is divided into eight Sucos: Babulo (Babulu) Betano, Dai-Sua (Daisua, Daisula) Grotu (Gratu) Holarua, Letefoho, Rotuto (Rotutu) and Tutuluro.

[8] In 2010, the inhabitants of the Sucos Holarua, Grotu, Dai-Sua and Rotuto complained that they constantly suffer from a shortage of food because their soils are not sufficiently productive.

Boaventura, the Liurai of Manufahi and his father Duarte (1895–1912), led several major revolts against the former Portuguese colonial power.

At this time Boaventura united several Timorese kingdoms into the largest resistance movement, which the Portuguese met with during the colonial period.

It was only during the rebellion of Manufahi in 1911-1912 that Boaventura was finally defeated and captured, during the uprising in Betano, by the loyal Timorese and Portuguese-African troops from Mozambique, and sometimes even from Angola.

East Timorese sources estimate that in the last revolt 15,000-25,000 people were killed and many thousands more were captured and imprisoned.

In the area of today's Suco of Dai-Sua, one of the largest massacres in Portuguese colonial history occurred in August 1912.

During the civil war between FRETILIN and UDT in the last days of Portuguese colonial rule, on 11 August 1975, most residents of Letefoho fled from their homes to the mountains.

They feared abduction by the UDT after the killing of 11 FRETILIN supporters in the Wedauberek massacre in the Alas sub-district.

[12] On 27 January 1976, FRETILIN fighters rounded up eight UDT prisoners in Hat Nipah and killed all but two of them, one which was later stabbed in the stomach with a spear and shot dead in a cornfield in Holarua the next day.

On 29 January, in anger the FRETILIN fighters stormed into the elementary school and opened fire on the prisoners killing 30 of them, leaving only three survivors who had either played dead or had escaped by jumping out a window.

Houses were burned down, schools closed, and women and children forced to stand guard in a military post.

On 1 March 2007, the fugitive rebel leader Alfredo Reinado came to Same together with 150 men of the Australian ISF, including soldiers.

He was joined by Gastão Salsinha, and Leonardo Isaac, another leader of the rebel soldiers and the Member of Parliament of the Partido Social Democrata (PSD) – to render assistance.