This page is a short summary containing more general information about the province of South Sulawesi. Extensive information on South
Sulawesi can be found in the directories ' Sulawesi' and ' Sulawesi Selatan' on this website.
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Location map of South Sulawesi. |
South Sulawesi (
Sulawesi
Selatan) is a province of Indonesia, located on Sulawesi island. The province is bordered by Central Sulawesi (North), South-Eastern Sulawesi (East) and
West Sulawesi (West). The total land area is 62.482,54 kmē.
The provincial capital and largest city is Makassar. A portion of South Sulawesi was split-off to form West Sulawesi province in 2004.
Administrative division
South Sulawesi is divided into following regencies with their capitals:
- Bantaeng Regency (Bantaeng)
- Barru Regency (Barru)
- Bone (Watampone)
- Bulukumba (Bulukumba)
- Enrekang (Enrekang)
- Gowa (Sungguminasa)
- Jeneponto (Jeneponto)
- Luwu (Palopo)
- East Luwu (Malili)
- North Luwu (Masamba)
- Maros (Maros)
- Pangkajene Islands (Pangkajene)
- Pinrang (Pinrang)
- Selayar (Benteng)
- Sinjai (Sinjai)
- Sidenreng Rappang (Sidenreng)
- Soppeng (Watansoppeng)
- Takalar (Takalar)
- Tana Toraja (Makale)
- Wajo (Sengkang)
The cities are:
- Makassar
- Palopo
- Pare-Pare
