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Central Sulawesi

Palu

Palu, officially known as the City of Palu, is the capital and largest city of Province in . Palu is located on the northwestern coast of at the mouth of the long , whose extensive valley stretches far to the south.
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  • Type: City with 335,000 residents
  • Description: city in Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Paloe” and “Palu City”

Palu

Latitude
-0.8958° or 0° 53′ 45″ south
Longitude
119.868° or 119° 52′ 5″ east
Population
335,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
PLW
United Nations Location Code
ID PAL
Open location code
6PFX4V39+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 296110116
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1633034
Wiki­data ID
Q15826
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Palu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Palu”
  • Albanian: “Palu”
  • Arabic: “بالو”
  • Armenian: “Պալու”
  • Balinese: “Kota Palu”
  • Basque: “Palu”
  • Belarusian: “Палу (Сулавесі)”
  • Belarusian: “Палу”
  • Bengali: “পালো”
  • Betawi: “Kota Palu”
  • Catalan: “Palu”
  • Cebuano: “Kota Palu”
  • Chinese: “Palu Chhī”
  • Chinese: “帕卢”
  • Chinese: “帕盧”
  • Czech: “Palu”
  • Danish: “Palu”
  • Dutch: “Palu”
  • Esperanto: “Paluo”
  • Estonian: “Palu”
  • Fijian: “Palu”
  • Finnish: “Palu”
  • French: “Palu”
  • Georgian: “პალუ”
  • German: “Palu”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Palu”
  • Greek: “Παλού”
  • Gujarati: “પલુ”
  • Hebrew: “פאלו”
  • Hindi: “पालू”
  • Hungarian: “Palu”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Poso”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Palu”
  • Indonesian: “Kotamadya Daerah Tingkat II Palu”
  • Indonesian: “Palu, Sulawesi Tengah”
  • Indonesian: “Palu”
  • Irish: “Palu”
  • Italian: “Palu”
  • Japanese: “パル”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Palu”
  • Javanese: “Palu”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಲು”
  • Komering: “Palu”
  • Korean: “팔루”
  • Latvian: “Palu”
  • Lithuanian: “Palu”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Palu”
  • Malay: “Kota Palu”
  • Malay: “کوتا ڤالو”
  • Marathi: “पलू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palu”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Palu”
  • Minangkabau: “Palu”
  • Mingrelian: “პალუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palu”
  • Norwegian: “Palu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palu”
  • Ossetian: “Палу (Сулавеси)”
  • Ossetian: “Палу”
  • Persian: “پالو”
  • Polish: “Palu”
  • Portuguese: “Palu”
  • Romanian: “Palu”
  • Russian: “Пал”
  • Russian: “Палу”
  • Sinhala: “පාලු”
  • Slovenian: “Palu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالو”
  • Spanish: “Palu”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Palu”
  • Sundanese: “Palu”
  • Swedish: “Palu”
  • Tamil: “பாலு”
  • Tatar: “Палу (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Палу”
  • Telugu: “పాలు”
  • Thai: “ปาลู”
  • Turkish: “Palu, Endonezya”
  • Turkish: “Palu”
  • Ukrainian: “Палу”
  • Urdu: “پالو”
  • Venetian: “Palu”
  • Vietnamese: “Palu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palu”
  • Western Panjabi: “پالو”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕盧（印度尼西亞）”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕盧”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕盧”
  • “Kota Palu”
  • “Palu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Palu”. Photo: a rabin, CC BY 2.0.