Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia located in the north-central part of the island of Sulawesi. The administrative capital and largest city is located in Palu.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Palu and Banggai Islands.
Palu
Palu, officially known as the City of Palu, is the capital and largest city of Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. Palu is located on the northwestern coast of Sulawesi at the mouth of the long Palu River, whose extensive valley stretches far to the south.
Banggai Islands
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The Banggai Islands are an archipelago in the Banda Sea, off the east coast of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Lore Lindu National Park
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Lore Lindu National Park is a protected area of forest on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in the province of Central Sulawesi. The Indonesian national park is 2,180 km2 covering both lowland and montane forests.
Destinations to Discover
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Togian Islands
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The Togian Islands are an archipelago of 56 islands and many offshore islets, situated in the Gulf of Tomini, off the coast of Central Sulawesi, in Indonesia.
Luwuk
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Luwuk is the capital of Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its area is 72.82 km2 following boundary changes in 2012 and 2015. There used to be an oil industry in the region.
Ampana
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Ampana is a town and the administrative centre of the Tojo Una-Una Regency, in Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. Ampana is located in the middle between Poso and Luwuk.
Central Sulawesi
- Type: State with 3,020,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia, on island of Sulawesi
- Also known as: “Central Sulawesi Province”, “Sulawesi Tengah Province”, and “Sulteng”
- Neighbors: East Kalimantan, Gorontalo, Southeast Sulawesi, and Southern Sulawesi
- Categories: province of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-1.6938° or 1° 41′ 38″ southLongitude of center
120.8089° or 120° 48′ 32″ eastPopulation
3,020,000Elevation
570 metres (1,870 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1898306495OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Central Sulawesi” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “መካከለኛ ሱላዋዌሲ”
- Arabic: “سولاوسي الوسطى”
- Asturian: “Célebes Central”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Sulawesi”
- Balinese: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko Sulawesi”
- Batak Mandailing: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Цэнтральны Сулавесі”
- Belarusian: “Цэнтральны Сулавесі”
- Bengali: “কেন্দ্রীয় সুলাওয়েসি”
- Bengali: “মধ্য সুলাওয়েসি”
- Betawi: “Sulawési Tenga”
- Breton: “Kreiz Selebez”
- Bulgarian: “Централно Сулавеси”
- Catalan: “Celebas del Centre”
- Cebuano: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Chinese: “Tiong Sulawesi Séng”
- Chinese: “中苏拉威西省”
- Chinese: “中蘇拉威西”
- Chinese: “中蘇拉威西省”
- Czech: “Střední Sulawesi”
- Danish: “Central Sulawesi Province”
- Dutch: “Centraal-Celebes”
- Dutch: “Centraal-Sulawesi”
- Dutch: “Midden-Celebes”
- Dutch: “Midden-Sulawesi”
- Esperanto: “Centra Celebeso”
- Esperanto: “Centra Sulaŭesio”
- Esperanto: “Centra Sulaveso”
- Finnish: “Keski-Sulawesi”
- French: “Sulawesi central”
- Georgian: “ცენტრალური სულავესი”
- German: “Provinz Zentralsulawesi”
- German: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- German: “Zentral-Sulawesi”
- Gorontalo: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Greek: “Κεντρικό Σουλαουέσι”
- Gujarati: “સેન્ટ્રલ સુલાવેસી પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chûng Sû-lâ-vî-sî-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chûng Sulawesi”
- Hausa: “Tsakiyar Sulawesi”
- Hebrew: “מרכז סולאווסי”
- Hindi: “मध्य सुलावेसी प्रांत”
- Hindi: “मध्य सुलावेसी”
- Hungarian: “Közép-Sulawesi”
- Iloko: “Tengnga a Sulawesi”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Tingkat I Sulawesi Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Sulawesi Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Sulawesi Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sulawesi Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Sulteng”
- Irish: “an tSulaivéis Láir”
- Italian: “Sulawesi Centrale”
- Japanese: “中スラウェシ州”
- Japanese: “中部スラウェシ州”
- Javanese: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Kannada: “ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸುಲಾವೆಸಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Орталық Сулавеси”
- Kirghiz: “Борбор Сулавеси”
- Komering: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Komering: “Sulawesi Tongah”
- Korean: “술라웨시틍아 주”
- Korean: “중앙술라웨시주”
- Latvian: “Centrālā Sulavesi”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinis Sulavesis”
- Madurese: “Sulawèsi Tengnga”
- Malay: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Malay: “سولاويسي تڠه”
- Malayalam: “മദ്ധ്യ സുലവേസി”
- Marathi: “मध्य सुलावेसी प्रांत”
- Marathi: “मध्य सुलावेसी”
- Mazanderani: “میونی سولاوسی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dṳ̆ng Sulawesi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong Sulawesi Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Sulawesi Tangah”
- Minangkabau: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Mongolian: “Төв Сулавеси”
- Northern Frisian: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentral Sulaweisi provins”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Celebas del Centre”
- Oromo: “Giddu Sulawesi”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਸੁਲਾਵੇਸੀ”
- Persian: “سولاوسی مرکزی”
- Polish: “Celebes Środkowy”
- Portuguese: “Celebes Centrais”
- Portuguese: “Celebes Central”
- Pushto: “مرکزی سولاویسی”
- Russian: “Султенг”
- Russian: “Центральный Сулавеси”
- Serbian: “Централни Сулавеси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Centralni Sulawesi”
- Sinhala: “මද්යම සුලවෙසි පළාත”
- Sinhala: “මධ්යම සුලවේසි පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Slovenian: “Osrednji Sulavezi”
- Somali: “Dhexe Sulawesi”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرکزی سولاوسی”
- Spanish: “Celebes Central”
- Spanish: “Célebes Central”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Célebes Central”
- Sundanese: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Swahili: “Sulawesi Kati”
- Swedish: “Sulawesi Tengah”
- Tajik: “Сулавесии Марказӣ”
- Tamil: “சென்ட்ரல் சுலாவெசி மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “நடுச் சுலவேசி”
- Tamil: “நடுச் சுலாவெசி”
- Tamil: “நடுச் சுளாவெசி மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “மத்திய சுலவேசி”
- Tamil: “மத்திய சுலாவெசி”
- Tatar: “Үзәк Сулавеси”
- Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ సులావేసి ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ సులావేసి రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซูลาเวซีกลาง”
- Turkish: “Orta Sulawesi”
- Ukrainian: “Центральне Сулавесі”
- Urdu: “وسطی سولاویسی”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy Sulawesi”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Sulawesi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Butnga nga Sulawesi”
- Western Armenian: “Կեդրոնական Սուլաուեսի”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبا گبھلا سولاویسی”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ گھبلا سولاویسی”
- Wu Chinese: “中蘇拉威西省”
- Yue Chinese: “中蘇拉威西”
- “Prov. Sulawesi Tengah”
- “Sulawesi Tengah”
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