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Sulawesi (/ ˌ s uː l ə ˈ w eɪ s i / SOO-lə-WAY-see), [1] also known as Celebes (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ b iː z, s ə ˈ l iː b iː z / SEL-ib-eez, sə-LEE-beez), [2] is an island in Indonesia.One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.
West Sulawesi ( Indonesian: Sulawesi Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It borders the provinces of South Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi to the east, Makassar Strait to the west, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The province also shares maritime borders with East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan to the west and West Nusa Tenggara to the south.
South Sulawesi ( Indonesian: Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital and largest city is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi to the north, the Gulf of Bone and ...
Southeast Sulawesi ( Indonesian: Sulawesi Tenggara, often abbreviated to Sultra ), is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of substantial offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawonii (formerly called Wowoni), together with many smaller islands.
Following the splitting away of part (five regencies) of the province to form a separate West Sulawesi Province in 2004, the remaining South Sulawesi Province was divided into twenty regencies (kabupaten) and three independent cities (kota), but a twenty-first regency (Toraja Utara) was formed on 24 June 2008 from the northern half of Tana ...
Sidenreng Rappang Regency (the name is often abbreviated to "Sidrap") is a landlocked regency of South Sulawesi Province in Indonesia.It has an area of 1,883.23 kilometres (1,170.18 mi) and had a population of 271,911 at the 2010 Census and 319,990 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 326,330 (comprising 160,986 males and 165,344 females).
Wakatobi National Park is located south-east of Sulawesi, between 05°12’-06°10’S and 123°20’-124°39’E, between the Banda Sea to the north-east and the Flores Sea to the south-west. [ 3 ] It consists of four larger islands: Wangi-Wangi , Kaledupa, Tomia and Binongko, as well as many small islands such as Tokobao, North Lintea, South ...
e. The Sultanate of Gowa (sometimes written as Goa; not to be confused with Goa in India) was one of the great kingdoms in the history of Indonesia and the most successful kingdom in the South Sulawesi region. People of this kingdom come from the Makassar tribe who lived in the south end and the west coast of southern Sulawesi.