Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the main islands of Indonesia, and the eleventh largest island in the world. With four spindly arms spinning outward, Sulawesi's spidery shape is easily recognizable.Sulawesi
- Type: Island
- Historically known as: “Celebes”
- Category: landform
- Location: Southern Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-2.1315° or 2° 7′ 54″ southLongitude
120.2889° or 120° 17′ 20″ eastPopulation
18,500,000Elevation
985 metres (3,232 feet)Open location code
6Q92V79Q+9HGeoNames ID
9062340
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Satellite Map
Discover Sulawesi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sulawesi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Sulawèsi”
- Arabic: “سولاوسي”
- Armenian: “Ցելեբես Սուլավեսի”
- Azerbaijani: “Sulavesi”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сулавесі”
- Buginese: “Sulawési”
- Bulgarian: “Сулавеси”
- Burmese: “ဆူလာဝေစီကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Cèlebes”
- Chinese: “苏拉威西岛”
- Chuvash: “Сулавеси”
- Dutch: “Celebes”
- Esperanto: “Sulaveso”
- French: “Célèbes”
- Galician: “Célebes”
- Georgian: “სულავესი”
- Greek: “Σουλαουέζι”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sû-lâ-vî-sî-tó”
- Hebrew: “סולאווסי”
- Hindi: “सुलावेसी”
- Hungarian: “Celebesz”
- Icelandic: “Súlavesí”
- Irish: “An Cheilibéis”
- Japanese: “スラウェシ島”
- Kazakh: “Сулавеси”
- Korean: “술라웨시 섬”
- Latvian: “Sulavesi”
- Lithuanian: “Sulavesis”
- Lombard: “Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Сулавеси”
- Malayalam: “സുലവേസി”
- Marathi: “सुलावेसी”
- Mingrelian: “სულავესი”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Celebas”
- Persian: “سولاوسی”
- Piemontese: “Célebes”
- Polish: “Celebes”
- Portuguese: “Celebes”
- Russian: “Сулавеси”
- Serbian: “Сулавеси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sulavesi”
- Spanish: “Célebes”
- Tamil: “சுலாவெசி”
- Thai: “เกาะซูลาเวซี”
- Ukrainian: “Сулавесі”
- Urdu: “سولاویسی”
- Western Frisian: “Selebes”
- Western Mari: “Сулавеси”
- Western Panjabi: “سولاویسی”
- Wu Chinese: “蘇拉威西島”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇拉威西”
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