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Poso
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Poso (Old Spelling: Posso) is the administrative capital of Poso Regency, Indonesia. It is the main port and transportation hub for the central-southern coast of Central Sulawesi. Its urban area consists of three districts, Poso Kota, North Poso Kota, and South Poso Kota. Poso lies in the middle of the province on the shore of the Gulf of Tomini, right in the central part of Sulawesi Island. With a total population of 47,592 in mid 2024, it is one of the biggest and oldest towns in the province.
Key facts
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- Poso
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- Town
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- Kota Poso (2015).jpg
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- Poso in 2015
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- Poso Sentinel-2 L2A, True Color on December 5, 2020.png
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- Sentinel-2 L2A satellite image, featuring the city of Poso in December 2020
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- Indonesia Sulawesi
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- Location of Poso in Sulawesi
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- Country
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- Province
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- Central Sulawesi
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- Regency
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- Poso
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- 66.8
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- mid 2024 estimate
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- 47592
- Settlement.timezone
- Central Indonesia Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +8
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home | PEMDA Kabupaten Poso
Halaman Depan Situs Resmi Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Poso
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- capital of regency
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Poso
- Contains
- Poso Kota
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Capital of
- Poso
- Official website
- posokab.go.id
- Image
- Kota Poso (2015).jpg
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Poso (Old Spelling: Posso) is the administrative capital of Poso Regency, Indonesia. It is the main port and transportation hub for the central-southern coast of Central Sulawesi. Its urban area consists of three districts, Poso Kota, North Poso Kota, and South Poso Kota. Poso lies in the middle of the province on the shore of the Gulf of Tomini, right in the central part of Sulawesi Island. With a total population of 47,592 in mid 2024, it is one of the biggest and oldest towns in the province.
Poso began to develop as a small port town located at the mouth of the Poso River at the end of the 19th century—making it one of the oldest towns in Central Sulawesi, its presence was considered important for the Dutch to control the southern region of Tomini in the early days of their arrival. Poso was the administrative center of Landschap Poso, Onderafdeling Poso, and later Afdeling Poso during colonial times. Amid World War II, the Japanese made Poso one of their military posts. Post-independence, Poso was chosen as the capital of the newly formed Central Sulawesi in 1948 before the capital was moved to Palu in 1951.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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