South Sulawesi
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/24806
- Note
- "South Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Selatan, abbreviated as Sulsel; Buginese: ᨔᨘᨒᨓᨙᨔᨗ ᨑᨗᨐᨈ) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi to the north, the Gulf of Bone and Southeast Sulawesi to the east, Makassar Strait to the west, and Flores Sea to the south.
The 2010 census estimated the population as 8,032,551 which makes South Sulawesi the most populous province on the island (46% of the population of Sulawesi is in South Sulawesi), and the sixth most populous province in Indonesia. By mid 2019 this was estimated to have risen to 8,819,500. The main ethnic groups in South Sulawesi are the Buginese, Makassarese, Toraja, and Mandar. The economy of the province is based on agriculture, fishing, and mining of gold, magnesium, iron and other metals. The pinisi, a traditional Indonesian two-masted sailing ship, is still used widely by the Buginese and Makassarese, mostly for inter-insular transportation, cargo, and fishing purposes within the Indonesian archipelago." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.02.2020) - Latitude
- -4.3333334922791
- Longitude
- 120.25
- Inhabitants
- 8,034,776
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