Sulawesi
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Area
181K km²
Coordinates
-1.8500, 120.5300
Category
islands
Overview
A wildly shaped island at the heart of Indonesia's Wallacea biodiversity zone.
About
Sulawesi, also known as Celebes, 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. Within Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra are more populous.
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