Makassar

Makassar, formerly called Ujung Pandang, is the capital of South Sulawesi province. It has the largest population of any city on the island of , , and is the fifth largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Medan.
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  • Type: City with 1,430,000 residents
  • Description: city in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Bōng-ka-siah”, “Djumpandang”, “Kota Ujung Pandang”, “Kota Ujungpandang”, “Kotamadya Makassar”, “Kotapraja Makasar”, “Kotapraja Makassar”, “Macaçar”, “Macassar, Mangkasar”, “Makassar City”, “Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan”, “Makasser”, “Udjung Pandang”, “Ujung Pandang”, “Макасар қаласы”, “Уджунгпанданг”, “மகாஸர்”, “ウジュン・パンダン”, “ウジュンパンダン”, “コタ・マカッサル”, “コタマカッサル”, “乌戎潘当”, “烏戎潘當”, “芒佳瑟”, “芒佳虱”, “茫加薩”, “茫咖薩”, “蚊加颯”, “錫江”, “錫江市”, “锡江”, “馬加撒”, “馬卡薩”, and “马卡萨”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Fort Rotterdam and La Galigo Museum.

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is a 17th-century fort in Makassar on the island of in .

Museum
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Mosque
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Makassar

Latitude
-5.1343° or 5° 8′ 4″ south
Longitude
119.4124° or 119° 24′ 45″ east
Population
1,430,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
UPG
UN/LOCODE
ID MAK
Open location code
6P6XVC86+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 297406682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1622786
Wiki­data ID
Q14634
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Makassar” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Makassar”
  • Afrikaans: “Makassar”
  • Albanian: “Makasar”
  • Arabic: “ماكاسار”
  • Arabic: “مكسر”
  • Armenian: “Մակասար”
  • Azerbaijani: “Makasar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Makassar”
  • Balinese: “Kota Makassar”
  • Banjar: “Kuta Mangkasar”
  • Basque: “Makassar”
  • Belarusian: “Макасар”
  • Bengali: “মাকাসার”
  • Bengali: “মাকাস্সার”
  • Betawi: “Kota Makasar”
  • Bosnian: “Makassar”
  • Bulgarian: “Макасар”
  • Burmese: “မာကတ်ဆာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Makassar”
  • Cebuano: “Kecamatan Makkassar”
  • Cebuano: “Kota Makassar”
  • Chechen: “Макасар”
  • Chinese: “孟加錫”
  • Chinese: “望加錫”
  • Chinese: “望加锡”
  • Czech: “Makasar”
  • Czech: “Makassar”
  • Danish: “Makassar”
  • Dutch: “Makassar”
  • Dzongkha: “མཀ་སར། གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Esperanto: “Makassar”
  • Estonian: “Makassar”
  • Fijian: “Makassar”
  • Finnish: “Makassar”
  • French: “Makassar”
  • Galician: “Makassar”
  • Georgian: “მაკასარი”
  • German: “Makassar”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Makassar”
  • Greek: “Μακασάρ”
  • Gujarati: “મકાસ્સર”
  • Hausa: “Makassar”
  • Hebrew: “מקאסאר”
  • Hindi: “मकस्सर”
  • Hindi: “मकास्सर”
  • Hindi: “माकास्सार”
  • Hungarian: “Makassar”
  • Icelandic: “Makassar”
  • Ido: “Makassar”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Makassar”
  • Indonesian: “Makassar”
  • Interlingua: “Makassar”
  • Irish: “Makassar”
  • Italian: “Makassar”
  • Japanese: “マカッサル”
  • Javanese: “Kota Makassar”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Makassar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Makassar”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕಸ್ಸರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕಾಸ್ಸರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Макасар”
  • Kirghiz: “Ужунгпанданг”
  • Komering: “Makassar”
  • Korean: “마카사르”
  • Latvian: “Makasara”
  • Lithuanian: “Makasaras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Makassar”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Makassar”
  • Malay: “Makassar”
  • Malayalam: “മകസ്സാർ”
  • Maori: “Makahā”
  • Maori: “Makassar”
  • Marathi: “मकस्सर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Makassar Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Makassar”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Makassar”
  • Minangkabau: “Makassar”
  • Mingrelian: “მაკასარი”
  • Moksha: “Макасар”
  • Mongolian: “Макассар”
  • Northern Frisian: “Makassar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makassar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makassar”
  • Norwegian: “Makassar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Makassar”
  • Ossetian: “Макасар”
  • Persian: “ماکاسار”
  • Polish: “Makasar”
  • Portuguese: “Macáçar”
  • Portuguese: “Macassar”
  • Romanian: “Makassar”
  • Russian: “Макасар”
  • Russian: “Макассар”
  • Scots: “Makassar”
  • Serbian: “Макасар”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းမႃႇၵႅတ်ႉသႃႇ”
  • Silesian: “Makasar”
  • Sinhala: “මකස්සර්”
  • Slovenian: “Makasar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماکاسار”
  • Spanish: “Macasar”
  • Spanish: “Makassar”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Makassar”
  • Swahili: “Makassar”
  • Swedish: “Makassar”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Makassar”
  • Tajik: “Макасар”
  • Tamil: “மக்காசார்”
  • Tatar: “Макассар”
  • Telugu: “మకాసర్”
  • Thai: “มากัซซาร์”
  • Turkish: “Makassar”
  • Turkmen: “Makassar”
  • Ukrainian: “Макасар”
  • Urdu: “ماکاسار”
  • Urdu: “مکاسر”
  • Uzbek: “Makasar”
  • Uzbek: “Ujungpandang”
  • Vietnamese: “Makassar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Makassar”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماکاسار”
  • Wu Chinese: “望加錫”
  • Yue Chinese: “孟加失”
  • “ma tomo Makasa”
  • “Makassar”

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