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 Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is the fifth largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Medan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Rotterdam and La Galigo Museum.
Fort Rotterdam
Battlefield
Photo: Sanko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Rotterdam is a 17th-century fort in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is a Dutch fort that was built on top of an existing fort of the Gowa Kingdom.
Makassar Port
Transport stop
Photo: RianHS, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Port of Makassar, also known as Port of Soekarno-Hatta, is a seaport in Makassar, Indonesia. It is the largest cargo traffic hub in Sulawesi. It is considered a primary port by the Indonesian Government, along with the Port of Tanjung Priok, Port of Tanjung Perak, and Port of Belawan.
Makassar
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Makassar Metropolitan Area, Southern Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-5.1343° or 5° 8′ 4″ southLongitude
119.4124° or 119° 24′ 45″ eastPopulation
1,430,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
UPGUnited Nations Location Code
ID MAKOpen location code
6P6XVC86+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 297406682OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1622786Wikidata ID
Q14634
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Azerbaijani: “ماکاسار”
- Balinese: “Kota Makassar”
- Banjar: “Kuta Mangkasar”
- Basque: “Makassar”
- Belarusian: “Макасар”
- Bengali: “মাকাসার”
- Bengali: “মাকাস্সার”
- Betawi: “Kota Makasar”
- Bosnian: “Makassar”
- Bulgarian: “Макасар”
- Burmese: “မာကတ်ဆာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Macassar”
- Catalan: “Makassar”
- Cebuano: “Kecamatan Makkassar”
- Cebuano: “Kota Makassar”
- Chechen: “Макасар”
- Chinese: “Makassar Chhī”
- Chinese: “乌戎潘当”
- Chinese: “孟加失”
- 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”
- Czech: “Makasar”
- Czech: “Makassar”
- Danish: “Makassar”
- Dutch: “Makassar”
- 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: “मकासर”
- Hindi: “मकास्सर”
- Hungarian: “Makassar”
- Icelandic: “Makassar”
- Ido: “Makassar”
- Indonesian: “Kota Makassar”
- Indonesian: “Kota Ujung Pandang”
- Indonesian: “Kota Ujungpandang”
- Indonesian: “Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Makassar”
- Indonesian: “Ujung Pandang”
- Indonesian: “Ujungpandang”
- Interlingua: “Makassar”
- Irish: “Makassar”
- Italian: “Makassar”
- Japanese: “ウジュン・パンダン”
- Japanese: “ウジュンパンダン”
- Japanese: “マカッサル”
- Javanese: “Kutha Makassar”
- Kalaallisut: “Makassar”
- Kannada: “ಮಕಸ್ಸರ”
- Kannada: “ಮಕಾಸ್ಸರ್”
- Kazakh: “Макасар қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Макасар”
- Kirghiz: “Ужунгпанданг”
- Komering: “Makassar”
- Korean: “마카사르”
- Latvian: “Makasara”
- Lithuanian: “Makasaras”
- Luxembourgish: “Makassar”
- Malagasy: “Kota Makassar”
- Malay: “Makassar”
- Malayalam: “മകസ്സാർ”
- Maori: “Makassar”
- Marathi: “मकस्सर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bōng-ka-siah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Makassar”
- Minangkabau: “Koto Mangkasar”
- 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: “Macaçar”
- Portuguese: “Macáçar”
- Portuguese: “Macassar”
- Romanian: “Makassar”
- Russian: “Макасар”
- Russian: “Макассар”
- Russian: “Уджунгпанданг”
- Scots: “Makassar”
- Serbian: “Макасар”
- Silesian: “Makasar”
- Sinhala: “මකස්සර්”
- Slovenian: “Makasar”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماکاسار”
- Spanish: “Macasar”
- Spanish: “Makassar”
- Spanish: “Ujungpandang”
- Sundanese: “Kota Makassar”
- Swahili: “Makassar”
- Swedish: “Kota Makassar”
- Swedish: “Makassar”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Makassar”
- Tajik: “Макасар”
- Tamil: “மகாஸர்”
- Tamil: “மக்காசார்”
- Tatar: “Макассар”
- Telugu: “మకాసర్”
- Thai: “มากัซซาร์”
- Turkish: “Makassar”
- Turkmen: “Makassar”
- Ukrainian: “Макасар”
- Ukrainian: “Макассар”
- 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”
- “Kota Makassar”
- “Makassar”
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