Gowa Regency
Gowa is a regency in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and includes many of the suburbs of the city of Makassar on its landward side. It has an area of 1,883.33 km2 and a population of 652,329 at the 2010 census, increasing to 765,836 at the 2020 census; the official estimate at mid-2025 was 841,730.- Type: regency of Indonesia with 783,000 residents
- Description: regency in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Daerah Tingkat II Goa”, “Daerah Tingkat II Gowa”, “Goa”, “Gowa”, “Gowa, Sulawesi Selatan”, “Kab. Gowa”, and “ゴワ県”
- Neighbors: Makassar and Maros
Gowa Regency
Latitude
-5.3167° or 5° 19′ south
Longitude
119.7167° or 119° 43′ east
Population
783,000
Elevation
581 metres (1,906 feet)
Open location code
6P6XMPM8+8M
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Gowa Regency” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Gowa”
- Afrikaans: “Gowa”
- Arabic: “جوا”
- Arabic: “منطقة وصاية جوا”
- Aragonese: “Gowa”
- Arpitan: “Gowa”
- Asturian: “Gowa”
- Balinese: “Kabupatén Gowa”
- Basque: “Gowa”
- Bavarian: “Gowa”
- Betawi: “Kabupatèn Gowa”
- Breton: “Gowa”
- Catalan: “Gowa”
- Cebuano: “Kabupaten Gowa”
- Chinese: “戈瓦县”
- Corsican: “Gowa”
- Croatian: “Gowa”
- Czech: “Gowa”
- Danish: “Gowa”
- Dutch: “Gowa”
- Esperanto: “Gowa”
- Estonian: “Gowa”
- Finnish: “Gowa”
- French: “Gowa”
- French: “Kabupaten de Gowa”
- Friulian: “Gowa”
- Galician: “Gowa”
- German: “Gowa”
- Gorontalo: “Gowa”
- Gorontalo: “Kabupaten Gowa”
- Hungarian: “Gowa”
- Icelandic: “Gowa”
- Ido: “Gowa”
- Indonesian: “Gowa”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Gowa”
- Interlingua: “Gowa”
- Interlingue: “Gowa”
- Irish: “Gowa”
- Italian: “Gowa”
- Italian: “Reggenza di Gowa”
- Japanese: “ゴワ王国”
- Javanese: “Gowa”
- Javanese: “Kabupatèn Gowa”
- Jèrriais: “Gowa”
- Kongo: “Gowa”
- Ligurian: “Gowa”
- Limburgan: “Gowa”
- Low German: “Gowa”
- Luxembourgish: “Gowa”
- Malagasy: “Gowa”
- Malay: “Gowa”
- Malay: “Kabupaten Gowa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gowa Koān”
- Minangkabau: “Gowa”
- Neapolitan: “Gowa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gowa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gowa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gowa”
- Picard: “Gowa”
- Piemontese: “Gowa”
- Polish: “Gowa”
- Portuguese: “Gowa”
- Romanian: “Gowa”
- Romansh: “Gowa”
- Sardinian: “Gowa”
- Scots: “Gowa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gowa”
- Serbian: “Gowa”
- Sicilian: “Gowa”
- Slovak: “Gowa”
- Slovenian: “Gowa”
- Spanish: “Gowa”
- Sundanese: “Gowa”
- Sundanese: “Kabupatén Gowa”
- Swahili: “Gowa”
- Swedish: “Kabupaten Gowa”
- Swiss German: “Gowa”
- Turkish: “Gowa ilçesi”
- Urdu: “گووا ریجنسی”
- Venetian: “Gowa”
- Vietnamese: “Gowa”
- Vlaams: “Gowa”
- Volapük: “Gowa”
- Walloon: “Gowa”
- Welsh: “Gowa”
- Wolof: “Gowa”
- Zulu: “Gowa”
- “Gowa”
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