Sulu
Sulu, officially the Province of Sulu; is a province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago and part of the Zamboanga Peninsula region. It was part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, until the Supreme Court of the Philippines…
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jolo and Bud Dajo.
Jolo
Jolo is a volcanic island in the southwest Philippines and is the primary island of the province of Sulu in Bangsamoro. The main city of the island, also called Jolo, is the capital of the province.Bud Dajo
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talipao and Maimbung.
Talipao
Town
Maimbung
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Sulu
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.9943° or 5° 59′ 39″ north
Longitude
121.0788° or 121° 4′ 44″ east
Population
1,150,000
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Open location code
6QQ3X3VH+PG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Sulu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Sulu” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Sulu”
- Arabic: “سولو”
- Balinese: “Sulu”
- Banjar: “Sulu”
- Bengali: “সুলু”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Sulu”
- Cebuano: “Sulu”
- Central Bikol: “Sulu”
- Chavacano: “Sulu”
- Chinese: “Sulu”
- Chinese: “苏禄省”
- Chinese: “蘇祿省”
- Dutch: “Sulu”
- Esperanto: “Sugio”
- Esperanto: “Sugujo”
- Esperanto: “Sulio”
- Esperanto: “Sulujo”
- Esperanto: “Suluo”
- Finnish: “Sulu”
- French: “Soulou”
- French: “Sulu”
- Georgian: “სულუ (პროვინცია)”
- Georgian: “სულუს პროვინცია”
- German: “Provinz Sulu”
- German: “Sulu”
- Gorontalo: “Sulu”
- Greek: “Σουλού”
- Gujarati: “સુલુ”
- Hebrew: “סולו”
- Hindi: “सुलु प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “सुलू”
- Iloko: “Sulu”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Suluk”
- Indonesian: “Sulu”
- Indonesian: “Suluk”
- Italian: “provincia di Sulu”
- Italian: “Provincia di Sulu”
- Japanese: “スールー”
- Japanese: “スールー州”
- Javanese: “Sulu”
- Kannada: “ಸುಲು”
- Kinaray-A: “Kasugan”
- Korean: “술루주”
- Latin: “Sulu”
- Latvian: “Sulu”
- Macedonian: “Сулу”
- Malay: “Sulu”
- Malay: “Suluk”
- Malay: “Wilayah Suluk”
- Marathi: “सलू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sulu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “蘇祿省”
- Minangkabau: “Sulu”
- Norwegian: “Sulu”
- Pampanga: “lalawígan ning Sug”
- Pampanga: “Sulu”
- Pangasinan: “Sulu”
- Persian: “سولو”
- Polish: “Archipelag Sulu”
- Portuguese: “Província de Sulu”
- Portuguese: “Sulu”
- Russian: “Сулу”
- Scots: “Sulu”
- Sinhala: “සූලු”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Sulu”
- South Azerbaijani: “سولو”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Joló”
- Spanish: “Sulú”
- Sundanese: “Sulu”
- Swedish: “Sulu”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Sulu”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Sulu”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Sulu”
- Tagalog: “Sulu”
- Tamil: “சுலு”
- Tausug: “Wilāya sin Lupa‘ Sūg”
- Telugu: “సులు”
- Tetum: “Sulu”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซูลู”
- Thai: “ซูลู”
- Turkish: “Sulu”
- Ukrainian: “Сулу”
- Urdu: “سولو”
- Venetian: “Provinsia de Sulù”
- Venetian: “Provìnsia de Sulù”
- Vietnamese: “Sulu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulu”
- Wu Chinese: “苏禄省”
- “lupa’ Sūg”
- “Sulu”
- “wilāya sin Sūg”
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