Celebes

Celebes, also called Sulawesi, is an island Indonesia. It is located in the centre of the Eastern Archipelago, third in size, in the shape of a body with four long limbs, traversed by mountain chains. Greater part of it was a Dutch possession with Macassar as its capital, though it contained a number of small native states, until Japanese occupation in the Second World War. Following the transfer of sovereignty in December 1949, it became part of the federal United States of Indonesia, which in 1950 became absorbed into the unitary Republic of Indonesia. The island yields among its mineral products gold, copper, tin, &c. In agriculture, it yields tea, coffee, rice, sugar, pepper, &c.

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