Sulawesi

Sulawesi is one of the main islands of , and the eleventh largest island in the world. With four spindly arms spinning outward, Sulawesi's spidery shape is easily recognizable.
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, formerly called Ujung Pandang, is the capital of South Sulawesi province. It has the largest population of any city on the island of Sulawesi, , and is the fifth largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Medan.

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is the capital city of the province of . It is the second largest city in Sulawesi 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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, officially known as the City of , is the capital and largest city of Province in . is located on the northwestern coast of Sulawesi at the mouth of the long , whose extensive valley stretches far to the south.

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North Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia. It is mainly located on the Minahasa Peninsula of the island of Sulawesi, 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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South Sulawesi is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi, . The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province.

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is a province of Indonesia located in the north-central part of the island of Sulawesi. The administrative capital and largest city is located in .

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is a province in , covering the southeastern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi as well as many offshore islands.

Sulawesi

  • Type: Island with 18,500,000 residents
  • Description: one of the four Greater Sunda Islands, governed by Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Celebes”, “Celebes Adası”, “Celebes Islands”, “Celebeso”, “Sulaŭesio”, “sulawési”, “Sulawesi (ö i Indonesien, Sulawesi Tengah)”, “Sulawesi (pulo sa Sulawesi Tengah)”, “Sulawesi Adası”, “Sulawesi Island”, “востраў Сулавесі”, “Сулавесі (востраў)”, “Целебес”, “סולאַוועסי”, “جزر سيليبس”, “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന്‍ ദീപ്”, “셀레베스 섬”, “勒伯”, “西里伯”, and “西里伯斯”
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
-2° or 2° south
Longitude of center
121° east
Population
18,500,000
Elevation
312 metres (1,024 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1626233
Wiki­data ID
Q3812
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sulawesi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sulawèsi”
  • Afrikaans: “Soelawesi”
  • Afrikaans: “Sulawesi”
  • Arabic: “سولاوسي”
  • Armenian: “Սուլավեսի”
  • Armenian: “Ցելեբես Սուլավեսի”
  • Assamese: “চুলাৱেছি”
  • Asturian: “Célebes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sulavesi”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Sulawesi”
  • Banjar: “Sulawesi”
  • Bashkir: “Сулавеси”
  • Basque: “Sulawesi”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Sulawesi”
  • Belarusian: “Сулавесі”
  • Belarusian: “Сулавэсі”
  • Bengali: “সুলাওয়েসি”
  • Bosnian: “Sulawesi”
  • Breton: “Sulawesi”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨘᨒᨓᨙᨔᨗ”
  • Bulgarian: “Сулавеси”
  • Burmese: “ဆူလာဝေစီကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Cèlebes”
  • Cebuano: “Sulawesi”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla nin Sulawesi”
  • Chinese: “苏拉威西岛”
  • Chinese: “蘇拉威西島”
  • Chuvash: “Сулавеси”
  • Croatian: “Sulawesi”
  • Czech: “Sulawesi”
  • Danish: “Sulawesi”
  • Dutch: “Celebes”
  • Dutch: “Sulawesi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سولاوسى”
  • Esperanto: “Sulaveso”
  • Estonian: “Sulawesi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sulawesi”
  • Finnish: “Sulawesi”
  • French: “Célèbes”
  • French: “Sulawesi”
  • Galician: “Célebes”
  • Georgian: “სულავესი”
  • German: “Sulawesi”
  • Gorontalo: “Sulawesi”
  • Greek: “Σουλαουέσι”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sulawesi”
  • Hausa: “Sulawesi”
  • Hebrew: “סולאווסי”
  • Hindi: “सुलावेसी”
  • Hungarian: “Celebesz”
  • Icelandic: “Súlavesí”
  • Iloko: “Sulawesi”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Sulawesi”
  • Indonesian: “Sulawesi”
  • Irish: “An Cheilibéis”
  • Irish: “An tSulaivéis”
  • Italian: “Sulawesi”
  • Japanese: “スラウェシ島”
  • Javanese: “Sulawesi”
  • Kazakh: “Сулавеси”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ូឡាវីស៊ី”
  • Komering: “Pulau Sulawesi”
  • Korean: “술라웨시섬”
  • Lao: “ຊູລາເວຊີ”
  • Latin: “Celebis”
  • Latvian: “Sulavesi”
  • Limburgan: “Celebes”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sulauesi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sulawesi”
  • Lithuanian: “Sulavesis”
  • Lombard: “Celebes”
  • Macedonian: “Сулавеси”
  • Malagasy: “Solavesy”
  • Malagasy: “Sulawesi”
  • Malay: “Sulawesi”
  • Malay: “سولاويسي”
  • Malayalam: “സുലവേസി”
  • Marathi: “सुलावेसी”
  • Mazanderani: “سولاسی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sulawesi”
  • Minangkabau: “Sulawesi”
  • Mingrelian: “სულავესი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sulawesi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sulawesi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sulawesi”
  • Norwegian: “Sulawesi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Celebas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Celèbes”
  • Ossetian: “Сулавеси”
  • Pampanga: “Sulawesi”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੁਲਾਵੇਸੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Sulawesi”
  • Persian: “سولاوسی”
  • Piemontese: “Célebes”
  • Polish: “Celebes”
  • Portuguese: “Celebes”
  • Portuguese: “Sulawesi”
  • Romanian: “Sulawesi”
  • Russian: “Сулавеси”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱞᱟᱣᱮᱥᱤ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Sulawesi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sulawesi”
  • Serbian: “Сулавеси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sulavesi”
  • Silesian: “Celebes”
  • Slovak: “Sulawesi”
  • Slovenian: “Sulavezi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سولاوسی”
  • Spanish: “Célebes”
  • Sundanese: “Sulawesi”
  • Swahili: “Sulawesi”
  • Swedish: “Sulawesi”
  • Tagalog: “Sulawesi”
  • Tamil: “சுலாவெசி”
  • Thai: “เกาะซูลาเวซี”
  • Turkish: “Sulawesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Сулавесі”
  • Urdu: “سولاویسی”
  • Uzbek: “Sulavesi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sulawesi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sulawesi”
  • Welsh: “Sulawesi”
  • Western Frisian: “Selebes”
  • Western Mari: “Сулавеси”
  • Western Panjabi: “سولاویسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “蘇拉威西島”
  • Yakut: “Сулавеси”
  • Yiddish: “סולאוועסי”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇拉威西”
  • “Sulawesi”

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