Island
Sulawesi
Natural Earth’s outline of Sulawesi measures about 166,000 km² (64,200 mi²), the 10th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 1.06× the size of Tunisia.
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The numbers
- 166,000km²Area, measured64,200 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 175,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 4.7% above our measure
The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.
What the numbers say about Sulawesi
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 13.1× the size of Sulawesi; Sulawesi ranks 10th.
- Sulawesi sits between Ellesmere Island (196,000 km²) and South Island (147,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Sulawesi would be larger than 121 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 92nd by area, between Somaliland (167,000 km²) and Tunisia (157,000 km²).
- It is larger than 29 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Georgia (United States), 152,000 km²) and smaller than 22.
- It is larger than 14 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Henan, 166,000 km²) and smaller than 17.
- The closest Chinese province is Henan (166,000 km²): Sulawesi is about the same size as Henan.
- Sulawesi lies at 2°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Sulawesi stretches about 822 km north to south and 717 km east to west.
- Our measured 166,000 km² is 4.7% below Wikidata’s published figure of 175,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Sulawesi. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Where Sulawesi ranks
Sulawesi is the 10th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys), public domain (Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys)). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11