Celebes Sea
The Celebes Sea or Sulawesi Sea of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by the Sangihe Islands chain, on the south by Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula, and the west by northern Kalimantan in Indonesia.Photo: Latorilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Sea
- Description: Interisland Sea in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Sulawesi Sea”
Celebes Sea
- Categories: marginal sea, locality, and body of water
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Latitude
3° northLongitude
122° eastOpen location code
6QJ4X2X2+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 305640071OpenStreetMap feature
place=seaWikidata ID
Q19270
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Celebes Sea” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Celebessee”
- Arabic: “بحر سيليبس”
- Armenian: “Սուլավեսի”
- Asturian: “Mar de Célebes”
- Azerbaijani: “Sulavesi dənizi”
- Balinese: “Segara Sulawesi”
- Bashkir: “Сулавеси диңгеҙе”
- Basque: “Celebesko itsasoa”
- Basque: “Sulawesiko itsasoa”
- Basque: “Zelebesko itsasoa”
- Belarusian: “Мора Сулавесі”
- Belarusian: “Мора Сулавэсі”
- Belarusian: “Сулавесі”
- Betawi: “Laot Sulawési”
- Bosnian: “Celebesko more”
- Breton: “Mor Selebez”
- Breton: “Mor Sulawesi”
- Bulgarian: “Море Сулавеси”
- Catalan: “mar de Cèlebes”
- Catalan: “Mar de Cèlebes”
- Central Bikol: “Dagat Selebes”
- Chinese: “Celebes Hái”
- Chinese: “苏拉威西海”
- Chinese: “西里伯斯海”
- Chinese: “西里珀斯海”
- Chuvash: “Сулавеси тинĕсĕ”
- Croatian: “Celebesko more”
- Czech: “Celebeské moře”
- Danish: “Celebeshavet”
- Dutch: “Celebeszee”
- Dutch: “Sulawesi Zee”
- Dutch: “Sulawesizee”
- Dutch: “Zee van Celebes”
- Eastern Mari: “Море Сулавеси”
- Eastern Mari: “Море Целебес”
- Eastern Mari: “Сулавеси теҥыз”
- Eastern Mari: “Целебес теҥыз”
- Esperanto: “Celebea Maro”
- Esperanto: “Sulavesa maro”
- Esperanto: “Sulavesa Maro”
- Estonian: “Sulawesi meri”
- Fiji Hindi: “Celebes Samundar”
- Finnish: “Celebesinmeri”
- Finnish: “Selebesinmeri”
- French: “Mer de Celebes”
- French: “mer de Célèbes”
- French: “Mer de Célèbes”
- French: “Mer de Sulawesi”
- French: “Mer des Célèbes”
- Galician: “Mar de Célebes”
- Georgian: “სულავესის ზღვა”
- German: “Celebes-See”
- German: “Celebessee”
- German: “Sulawesisee”
- Gorontalo: “Deheto Sulawesi”
- Greek: “Θάλασσα της Κελέβης”
- Hebrew: “ים סלבס”
- Hindi: “सुलावेसी सागर”
- Hungarian: “Celebesz-tenger”
- Icelandic: “Súlavesíhaf”
- Iloko: “Baybay Celebes”
- Indonesian: “Laut Celebes”
- Indonesian: “Laut Mindanau”
- Indonesian: “Laut Sulawesi”
- Irish: “Muir na Ceilibéise”
- Italian: “Mar di Celebes”
- Italian: “mare di Celebes”
- Japanese: “スラウェシ海”
- Japanese: “セレベス海”
- Javanese: “Sagara Sulawesi”
- Javanese: “Segara Sulawesi”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Сулавеси тенгиз”
- Kazakh: “Сулавеси теңізі”
- Korean: “셀레베스 해”
- Korean: “셀레베스해”
- Korean: “셀레브 해”
- Korean: “술라웨시 해”
- Korean: “술라웨시해”
- Latin: “Mare Celebense”
- Latvian: “Celebesas jūra”
- Latvian: “Sulavesi jūra”
- Lithuanian: “Celebeso jūra”
- Lithuanian: “Sulavesio jūra”
- Low German: “Celebessee”
- Macedonian: “Biển Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Celebes Denizi”
- Macedonian: “Celebeshavet”
- Macedonian: “Celebesinmeri”
- Macedonian: “Celebeské moře”
- Macedonian: “Celebesko more”
- Macedonian: “Celebessee”
- Macedonian: “Celebessjøen”
- Macedonian: “Celebessjön”
- Macedonian: “Celebesz-tenger”
- Macedonian: “Celebeszee”
- Macedonian: “Dagat Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Laut Sulawesi”
- Macedonian: “Mar de Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Mar de Célebes”
- Macedonian: “Mar de Cèlebes”
- Macedonian: “Mare di Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Marea Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Mer de Célèbes”
- Macedonian: “Mor Sulawesi”
- Macedonian: “Morze Celebes”
- Macedonian: “Segara Sulawesi”
- Macedonian: “Sulavesa Maro”
- Macedonian: “Sulavesi jūra”
- Macedonian: “Sulavesio jūra”
- Macedonian: “Sulawesi meri”
- Macedonian: “Sulaweské more”
- Macedonian: “Zelebes itsasoa”
- Macedonian: “Мора Сулавесі”
- Macedonian: “Мора Сулавэсі”
- Macedonian: “Море Сулавеси”
- Macedonian: “Море Сулавесі”
- Macedonian: “Селебесийн тэнгис”
- Macedonian: “Целебеско Море”
- Macedonian: “სულავესის ზღვა”
- Macedonian: “دریای سلب”
- Macedonian: “술라웨시 해”
- Macedonian: “セレベス海”
- Macedonian: “西里伯斯海”
- Malay: “Laut Sulawesi”
- Malay: “لاءوت سولاويسي”
- Malayalam: “സുലാവേസി ഉൾക്കടൽ”
- Malayalam: “സുലാവേസി കടൽ”
- Malayalam: “സെലിബെസ് കടൽ”
- Malayalam: “സെലിബ്സ് കടൽ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Celebes Hái”
- Mingrelian: “სულავესიშ ზუღა”
- Mongolian: “Селебесийн тэнгис”
- Northern Frisian: “Celebes Sia”
- Northern Frisian: “Sulawesi Sia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Celebeshavet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Celebessjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Laut Sulawesi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sulawesisjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sulawesihavet”
- Norwegian: “Celebessjøen”
- Panjabi: “ਸੈਲੀਬੈਸ ਸਾਗਰ”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Persian: “درياي سلب”
- Persian: “درياي سلبس”
- Persian: “درياي سولاوسي”
- Persian: “دریای سلب”
- Persian: “دریای سلبس”
- Persian: “دریای سولاوسی”
- Polish: “Morze Celebes”
- Portuguese: “Mar das celebes”
- Portuguese: “Mar de Celebes”
- Romanian: “Marea Celebes”
- Romanian: “Marea Sulawesi”
- Russian: “Море Сулавеси”
- Russian: “Сулавеси”
- Russian: “Целебес”
- Russian: “Целебесское море”
- Scots: “Celebes Sea”
- Serbian: “Целебеско море”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Celebesko more”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sulavesi more”
- Slovak: “Celebeské more”
- Slovak: “Sulaweské more”
- Slovenian: “Celebeško morje”
- South Azerbaijani: “سلب دنیزی”
- Spanish: “mar de Celebes”
- Spanish: “mar de Célebes”
- Spanish: “Mar de Célebes”
- Spanish: “mar de Sulawesi”
- Swahili: “Bahari ya Celebes”
- Swedish: “Celebessjön”
- Swedish: “Sulawesisjön”
- Tagalog: “Celebes Sea”
- Tagalog: “Celebes”
- Tagalog: “Dagat Celebes”
- Tagalog: “Dagat ng Celebes”
- Tagalog: “Dagat ng Selebes”
- Tagalog: “Dagat ng Sulawesi”
- Tagalog: “Dagat Selebes”
- Tagalog: “Dagat Sulawesi”
- Tagalog: “Sulawesi Sea”
- Tamil: “சுலாவெசி கடல்”
- Tamil: “செலேபெஸ் கடல்”
- Thai: “Celebes Sea”
- Thai: “ทะเลเซเลบีส”
- Turkish: “Celebes Denizi”
- Turkish: “Selebes Denizi”
- Ukrainian: “Море Сулавесі”
- Ukrainian: “Море Целебес”
- Ukrainian: “Сулавесі море”
- Ukrainian: “Сулавесі”
- Ukrainian: “Целебеське море”
- Urdu: “بحیرہ سلیبس”
- Uzbek: “Sulavesi”
- Venetian: “Mar de Célebes”
- Vietnamese: “Biển Celebes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Celebes Sea”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Celebes”
- Welsh: “Môr Celebes”
- Western Armenian: “Սելեպես Ծով”
- Western Frisian: “Selebes See”
- Western Frisian: “Selebessee”
- Western Mari: “Сулавеси тангыж”
- Wu Chinese: “西里伯斯海”
- Yue Chinese: “西里伯斯海”
- “Celebes Sea”
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