Sulawesi Island

Sulawesi is an island in Indonesia territory that lies between the island of Borneo and the Maluku Islands. With an area of 174,600 km ², the island of Sulawesi is the 11th largest worldwide.

Sulawesi is the fourth largest island in Indonesia after Papua, Kalimantan and Sumatra, with a land area of ​​174,600 square kilometers. The unique shape resembling roses spider or a K greater stretching from north to south and three peninsula stretching to the northeast, east and southeast. The island is bounded by the Makassar Strait to the west and separated from Borneo and the Maluku Islands are separated also from the Molucca Sea. Sulawesi is bordered on the west by Borneo, the Philippines in the north, south of Flores, Timor and Maluku in the east to the east.

Here are 10 cities in Sulawesi:
1. Makassar, South Sulawesi
2. Manado, North Sulawesi
3. Palu, Central Sulawesi
4. Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi
5. Bitung, North Sulawesi
6. Gorontalo, Gorontalo
7. Palopo, South Sulawesi
8. Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi
9. Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi and
10. Kotamobagu, North Sulawesi

Sulawesi is divided into six provinces in order of its formation are:
1. South Sulawesi province,
2. North Sulawesi,
3. Central Sulawesi,
4. Southeast Sulawesi,
5. Gorontalo, and
6. West Sulawesi.

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