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Sulawesi is an island in the Indonesian territory that lies between the island of Borneo and the Maluku Islands. With a total area of 174 600 km ², the island of Sulawesi is the world’s 11th largest.

Sulawesi is bordered on the west by Borneo, the Philippines in the north, south of Flores, Timor and the Moluccas southeast of the east.

Sulawesi is Indonesia’s fourth largest island after Papua, Kalimantan and Sumatra, with a land area of 174.6 thousand square kilometers. Unique shape resembles a spider roses stretching from north to south and three of the peninsula that lies to the northeast, east and southeast. The island is bounded by the Makassar Strait in the west and separated from Borneo and the Maluku Islands are separated also from the Molucca Sea.

Government in Sulawesi is divided into six provinces namely North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, and Gorontalo. Central Sulawesi is the largest province with a land area of 68.033 square kilometers and a sea area reached 189.480 square kilometers which includes the peninsula of the eastern and northern part of the peninsula and in the Gulf of Tomini Togean Islands and islands in the Banggai Archipelago in the Gulf of Tolo. Most land in this province is mountainous (42.80% is above the altitude of 500 meters above sea level) and Katopasa is the highest mountain with an altitude of 2835 meters above sea level.