Northern Sulawesi

North Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia. It is mainly located on the Minahasa Peninsula of the island of , south of the and southeast of , , but also includes various small archipelagoes situated between the Minahasa Peninsula and the southern Philippines.
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is the capital city of the province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in after , with the 2020 census giving a population of 451,916, and the official estimates for mid 2025 showing 462,658 inhabitants, distributed over a land area of 162.35 km2.

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is a city and the capital of the , Sulawesi, Indonesia. The city has a land area of 70.9 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 2025 was 204,805.

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is a city and the main deep-water port of Northern Sulawesi. Located on the eastern side of the province, also provides easy access to volcanoes, parks, and diving.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Minahasa and Gorontalo.

Regency is a regency in North Sulawesi, . Its capital is . 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 2025 was 333,316.

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is a province of on the of . Located on the Minahasa Peninsula, was formerly part of the province of North Sulawesi until its inauguration as a separate province on 5 December 2000.

are a group of islands which constitute two regencies within the province of North Sulawesi.

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is a 2,871 km2 on Minahassa Peninsula on island, . 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.

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is a small town in North Sulawesi Province, , at the south end province. provides easy access to the volcanoes namely Mount Ambang, , and diving in Pulau Lampu National Park.

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is a group of islands off the coast of North Sulawesi, : , 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: “Celebes Septentrional”, “Daerah Sulawesi Utara”, “Daerah Tingkat I Sulawesi Utara”, “North Sulawesi”, “Propinsi Sulawesi Utara”, “Prov. Sulawesi Utara”, “Provinz Nordsulawesi”, “Sulut”, “उत्तर सुलावेसी प्रांत”, “उत्तरी सुलावेसी प्रांत”, and “ఉత్తర సులావేసి రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: province of Indonesia and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
0.6556° or 0° 39′ 20″ north
Longitude of center
124.0902° or 124° 5′ 25″ east
Population
2,640,000
Elevation
886 metres (2,907 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1898306505
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1626229
Wiki­data ID
Q5068
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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: “北苏拉威西省”
  • 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: “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”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Celebesz”
  • Iloko: “Amianan a Sulawesi”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Sulawesi Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Sulawesi Utara”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Sulawesi Utara”
  • 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”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • “Sulawesi Utara”

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