Palu
Palu, officially known as the City of Palu, is the capital and largest city of Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. Palu is located on the northwestern coast of Sulawesi at the mouth of the long Palu River, whose extensive valley stretches far to the south.
- Type: City with 335,000 residents
- Description: city in Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Kotamadya Daerah Tingkat II Palu”, “Paloe”, “Palu City”, “Palu, Sulawesi Tengah”, and “Палу (Сулавесі)”
Palu
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kotamadya, and locality
- Location: Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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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
UN/LOCODE
ID PAL
Open location code
6PFX4V39+M5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Bengali: “পালো”
- Betawi: “Kota Palu”
- Catalan: “Palu”
- Cebuano: “Kota Palu”
- 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: “Πάλου”
- Gujarati: “પલુ”
- Hebrew: “פאלו”
- Hindi: “पालू”
- Hungarian: “Palu”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Poso”
- Indonesian: “Kota Palu”
- Indonesian: “Palu”
- Irish: “Palu”
- Italian: “Palu”
- Japanese: “パル”
- Javanese: “Kota Palu”
- 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 Chhī”
- 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”
- “Palu”
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