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.
  • City with about 1,340,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (50 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code UPG
  • Description: city in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as
    “Djumpandang”
    “Kota Makassar”
    “Macassar”
    “Macassar, Mangkasar”
    “Makassar City”
    “Makasser”
    “Udjung Pandang”
    “Ujung Pandang”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Rotterdam and La Galigo Museum.
is a 17th-century fort in Makassar on the island of in .
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Latitude
-5.1343° or 5° 8′ 4″ south
Longitude
119.4124° or 119° 24′ 45″ east
UN/LOCODE
ID MAK
Open location code
6P6XVC86+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Makassar” goes by many names.
MakassarAchinese
MakassarAfrikaans
MakasarAlbanian
ماكاسارArabic
مكسرArabic
ՄակասարArmenian
MakasarAzerbaijani
MakassarAzerbaijani
ماکاسارAzerbaijani
Kota MakassarBalinese
Kuta MangkasarBanjar
MakassarBasque
МакасарBelarusian
মাকাসারBengali
মাকাস্সারBengali
Kota MakasarBetawi
MakassarBosnian
МакасарBulgarian
မာကတ်ဆာမြို့Burmese
MacassarCatalan
MakassarCatalan
Kecamatan MakkassarCebuano
Kota MakassarCebuano
МакасарChechen
乌戎潘当Chinese
孟加錫Chinese
望加錫Chinese
望加锡Chinese
烏戎潘當Chinese
芒佳瑟Chinese
芒佳虱Chinese
茫加薩Chinese
茫咖薩Chinese
蚊加颯Chinese
錫江Chinese
錫江市Chinese
锡江Chinese
馬加撒Chinese
馬卡薩Chinese
马卡萨Chinese
MakasarCzech
MakassarCzech
MakassarDanish
MakassarDutch
མཀ་སར། གྲོང་ཁྱེར།Dzongkha
MakassarEsperanto
MakassarEstonian
MakassarFijian
MakassarFinnish
MakassarGalician
მაკასარიGeorgian
Kota MakassarGorontalo
ΜακασάρGreek
મકાસ્સરGujarati
MakassarHausa
מקאסארHebrew
माकास्सारHindi
MakassarHungarian
MakassarIcelandic
MakassarIdo
Kota MakassarIndonesian
Kota Ujung PandangIndonesian
Kotamadya MakassarIndonesian
Kotapraja MakasarIndonesian
Kotapraja MakassarIndonesian
MakasarIndonesian
MakassarIndonesian
Makassar, Sulawesi SelatanIndonesian
Ujung PandangIndonesian
MakassarInterlingua
MakassarIrish
MakassarItalian
ウジュン・パンダンJapanese
コタ・マカッサルJapanese
マカッサルJapanese
Kota MakassarJavanese
Kutha MakassarJavanese
MakassarKalaallisut
ಮಕಾಸ್ಸರ್Kannada
МакасарKazakh
Макасар қаласыKazakh
УжунгпандангKirghiz
MakassarKomering
마카사르Korean
MakasaraLatvian
MakasarasLithuanian
MakassarLuxembourgish
Kota MakassarMalagasy
MakassarMalay
മകസ്സാർMalayalam
MakahāMaori
MakassarMaori
मकस्सरMarathi
Bōng-ka-siahMin Nan Chinese
MakassarMin Nan Chinese
Makassar ChhīMin Nan Chinese
Kota MakassarMinangkabau
MakassarMinangkabau
მაკასარიMingrelian
МакасарMoksha
МакассарMongolian
MakassarNorthern Frisian
MakassarNorwegian
MakassarNorwegian Bokmål
MakassarNorwegian Nynorsk
MakassarOccitan (post 1500)
МакасарOssetian
ماکاسارPersian
MakasarPolish
MakassarRomanian
МакасарRussian
МакассарRussian
УджунгпандангRussian
MakassarScots
МакасарSerbian
ဝဵင်းမႃႇၵႅတ်ႉသႃႇShan
MakasarSilesian
මකස්සර්Sinhala
MakasarSlovenian
ماکاسارSouth Azerbaijani
Kota MakassarSundanese
MakassarSwahili
Kota MakassarSwedish
MakassarSwedish
Lungsod ng MakassarTagalog
МакасарTajik
மகாஸர்Tamil
மக்காசார்Tamil
МакассарTatar
మకాసర్Telugu
มากัซซาร์Thai
MakassarTurkish
MakassarTurkmen
МакасарUkrainian
ماکاسارUrdu
مکاسرUrdu
MakasarUzbek
UjungpandangUzbek
MakassarVietnamese
MakassarWaray (Philippines)
ماکاسارWestern Panjabi
望加錫Wu Chinese
孟加失Yue Chinese
ma tomo Makasa

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