Northern Sulawesi
North Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia. It is mainly located on the Minahasa Peninsula of the island of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia, but also includes various small archipelagoes situated between the Minahasa Peninsula and southern Philippines.Photo: Lunaloop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Manado and Gorontalo.
Manado
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Manado is the capital city of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in Sulawesi after Makassar, with the 2020 census giving a population of 451,916, and the official estimates for mid 2023 showing 458,582 inhabitants, distributed over a land area of 157.26 km2.
Gorontalo
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Gorontalo is a city and the capital of the Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The city has an area of 79.59 km2 and had a population of 179,991 at the 2010 census and 198,539 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 205,390.
Bitung
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Bitung is a city and the main deep-water port of Northern Sulawesi. Located on the eastern side of the province, Bitung also provides easy access to volcanoes, parks, and diving.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Minahasa and Gorontalo.
Minahasa
Minahasa Regency is a regency in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its capital is Tondano. It covers an area of 1,141.64 km2 and had a population of 310,384 at the 2010 Census; this rose to 347,290 at the 2020 Census, and the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 351,920.Gorontalo
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Gorontalo is a province of Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi. Located on the Minahasa Peninsula, Gorontalo was formerly part of the province of North Sulawesi until its inauguration as a separate province on 5 December 2000.
Sangihe Islands
Sangihe Islands are a group of islands which constitute two regencies within the province of North Sulawesi.Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park
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Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park is a 2,871 km2 national park on Minahassa Peninsula on Sulawesi island, Indonesia. Formerly known as Dumoga Bone National Park, it was established in 1991 and was renamed in honour of Nani Wartabone, a local resistance fighter who drove the Japanese from Gorontalo during World War II.
Modisi
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Modisi is a small town in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, at the south end province. Modisi provides easy access to the volcanoes namely Mount Ambang, Bogani nani wartabone National Park, and diving in Pulau Lampu National Park.
Bangka
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Bangka is a group of islands off the coast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia: Bangka, Gangga, Talise and Sahaung islands.
Northern Sulawesi
- Type: State with 2,640,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia, on island of Sulawesi
- Also known as: “North Sulawesi”, “North Sulawesi Province”, and “Sulawesi Utara”
- Neighbors: Gorontalo
- Categories: province of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
0.6556° or 0° 39′ 20″ northLongitude of center
124.0902° or 124° 5′ 25″ eastPopulation
2,640,000Elevation
886 metres (2,907 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Northern Sulawesi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Sulawèsi Barôh”
- Amharic: “ሰሜን ሱላዋዌሲ”
- Arabic: “سولاوسي الشمالية”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimal Sulawesi”
- Balinese: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Basque: “Ipar Sulawesi”
- Batak Mandailing: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Belarusian: “Паўночны Сулавесі”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Паўночны Сулавесі”
- Bengali: “উত্তর সুলাওয়েসি”
- Betawi: “Sulawési Lor”
- Breton: “Norzh Selebez”
- Bulgarian: “Северно Сулавеси”
- Catalan: “Cèlebes septentrional”
- Cebuano: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Central Bikol: “Amihanan na Sulawesi”
- Central Bikol: “Norteng Sulawesi”
- Chinese: “Pak Sulawesi Séng”
- Chinese: “北苏拉威西省”
- Chinese: “北蘇拉威西”
- Chinese: “北蘇拉威西省”
- Czech: “Severní Sulawesi”
- Danish: “North Sulawesi Province”
- Dutch: “Noord-Celebes”
- Dutch: “Noord-Sulawesi”
- Esperanto: “Norda Sulaveso”
- Finnish: “Pohjois-Sulawesi”
- French: “Sulawesi du Nord”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი სულავესი”
- German: “Nord-Sulawesi”
- German: “Provinz Nordsulawesi”
- German: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Gorontalo: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Greek: “Βόρειο Σουλαουέσι”
- Gujarati: “ઉત્તર સુલાવેસી પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pet Sû-lâ-vî-sî-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pet Sulawesi”
- Hausa: “Arewacin Sulawesi”
- Hebrew: “צפון סולאווסי”
- Hindi: “उत्तर सुलावेसी”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी सुलावेसी प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Észak-Celebesz”
- Iloko: “Amianan a Sulawesi”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Sulawesi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Tingkat I Sulawesi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Sulawesi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Sulawesi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sulawesi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Sulut”
- Irish: “An tSulaivéis Thuaidh”
- Italian: “Sulawesi Settentrionale”
- Japanese: “北スラウェシ”
- Japanese: “北スラウェシ州”
- Javanese: “Sulawesi Lor”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಸುಲಾವೆಸಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Түндік Сулавеси”
- Kirghiz: “Түндүк Сулавеси”
- Komering: “Sulawesi Liba”
- Komering: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Korean: “북술라웨시주”
- Korean: “술라웨시우타라 주”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļsulavesi province”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļsulavesi”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Sulavesis”
- Madurese: “Sulawesi Ḍâjâ”
- Madurese: “Sulawèsi Ḍâjâ”
- Malay: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Malay: “سولاويسي اوتارا”
- Malayalam: “വടക്കൻ സുലവേസി”
- Marathi: “उत्तर सुलावेसी प्रांत”
- Marathi: “उत्तर सुलावेसी”
- Mazanderani: “شمالی سولاوسی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k Sulawesi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Sulawesi Séng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Sulawesi”
- Minangkabau: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Minangkabau: “Sulawesi Utaro”
- Mongolian: “Умар Сулавеси”
- Mongolian: “Хойд Сулавеси”
- Northern Frisian: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Northern Luri: “سولاوسی شمالی”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord Sulawesi provins”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nord-Sulawesi”
- Oromo: “Kaaba Sulawesi”
- Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰ ਸੁਲਾਵੇਸੀ”
- Persian: “سولاوسی شمالی”
- Polish: “Celebes Północny”
- Portuguese: “Celebes do Norte”
- Portuguese: “Celebes Setentrional”
- Pushto: “شمالي سولاویسی”
- Russian: “Северный Сулавеси”
- Serbian: “Северни Сулавеси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverni Sulawesi”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු සුලවෙසි පළාත”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු සුලවේසි පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Slovenian: “Severni Sulavezi”
- Somali: “Woqooyi Sulawesi”
- South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی سولاوسی”
- Spanish: “Celebes Septentrional”
- Spanish: “Célebes Septentrional”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Célebes Septentrional”
- Sundanese: “Sulawesi Kalér”
- Swahili: “Sulawesi Kaskazini”
- Swedish: “Sulawesi Utara”
- Tajik: “Сулавесии Шимол”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு சுலாவெசி மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு சுலாவெசி”
- Tatar: “Төньяк Сулавеси”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర సులావేసి ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర సులావేసి రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซูลาเวซีเหนือ”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Sulawesi”
- Ukrainian: “Північне Сулавесі”
- Urdu: “شمالی سولاویسی”
- Uzbek: “Shimoliy Sulawesi”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Sulawesi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan nga Sulawesi”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبا اُبھا سولاویسی”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اتلا سولاویسی”
- Wu Chinese: “北蘇拉威西省”
- Yue Chinese: “北蘇拉威西”
- “Prov. Sulawesi Utara”
- “Sulawesi Utara”
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