Sulu Islands
The Sulu Islands are a region of the Philippines, an island chain that stretches from near Zamboanga City, at the southwestern tip of Mindanao, almost to the Malaysian province of Sabah, at the eastern end of Borneo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Soo Loo”, “Sooloo”, and “Sulu Archipelago”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Indanan and Jolo.
Indanan
Town
Indanan, officially the Municipality of Indanan, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 93,168 people.
Jolo
Town
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Jolo, officially the City of Jolo, is a City and capital of the province of Sulu, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 152,067 people.
Sulu Islands
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Bangsamoro, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Sulu Islands from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Sulu Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرخبيل سولو”
- Azerbaijani: “Sulu arxipelaqı”
- Banjar: “Kapulauan Sulu”
- Basque: “Sulu artxipelagoa”
- Belarusian: “Сулу (архіпелаг)”
- Belarusian: “Сулу”
- Bulgarian: “Сулу (архипелаг)”
- Bulgarian: “Сулу”
- Catalan: “arxipèlag de Sulu”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Sulu”
- Cebuano: “Sulu Archipelago”
- Chinese: “苏禄”
- Chinese: “苏禄群岛”
- Chinese: “蘇祿”
- Chinese: “蘇祿群島”
- Chinese: “蘇魯羣島”
- Chinese: “蘇魯群島”
- Croatian: “Sulu, otočje”
- Croatian: “Sulu”
- Dutch: “Sulu-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Sulua insularo”
- Estonian: “Sulu saared”
- Filipino: “Sulu Archipelago”
- Finnish: “Sulun saaristo”
- French: “archipel de Sulu”
- French: “Archipel de Sulu”
- Georgian: “სულუს არქიპელაგი”
- German: “Sulu-Archipel”
- Greek: “αρχιπέλαγος Σουλού”
- Hebrew: “ארכיפלג סולו”
- Hindi: “सुलु द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Sulu-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Súlueyjar”
- Iloko: “Purpuro ti Sulu”
- Indonesian: “Arsipelago Sulu”
- Indonesian: “Banjar Kulan”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Sulu”
- Indonesian: “Little Banjar”
- Italian: “Arcipelago di Sulu”
- Italian: “Isole Sulu”
- Japanese: “スールー諸島”
- Japanese: “スル諸島”
- Korean: “술루 군도”
- Korean: “술루 제도”
- Latvian: “Sulu arhipelāgs”
- Literary Chinese: “蘇祿”
- Lithuanian: “Sulu salynas”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Sulu”
- Northern Frisian: “Suulu Archipeel”
- Northern Frisian: “Suulu-Archipeel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suluøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suluøyane”
- Norwegian: “Suluøyene”
- Persian: “مجمعالجزایر سولو”
- Polish: “Archipelag Sulu”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Sulu”
- Romanian: “Arhipelagul Sulu”
- Russian: “Сулу”
- Slovenian: “Sulujski otoki”
- Slovenian: “Sulujsko otočje”
- Spanish: “archipiélago de Joló”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Joló”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Sulú”
- Spanish: “archipiélago joloano”
- Spanish: “Lupa’ Sūg”
- Spanish: “Lupah Sug”
- Swedish: “Suluöarna”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Sulu”
- Tamil: “சூலு தீவுக்கூட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Sulu Takımadaları”
- Ukrainian: “архіпелаг Сулу”
- Ukrainian: “Сулу”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Sulu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Sulu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulu Archipelago”
- Western Mari: “Сулу ошмаотывлӓ”
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