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Ujung Pandang

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U·jung Pan·dang or U·jung·pan·dang  (-jngpän-däng) Formerly Ma·kas·sar or Ma·ka·sar (m-ksr)
A city of central Indonesia on southwest Sulawesi Island. First visited by the Portuguese in 1512, it was settled by the Dutch in 1607. Population: 1,190,000.

Ujung Pandang [ˈuːdʒʊŋ pænˈdæŋ]
n
(Placename) a port in central Indonesia, on SW Sulawesi: an important native port before Portuguese (16th century) and Dutch (17th century) control; capital of Dutch East Indonesia (1946-49); a major Indonesian distribution and transshipment port. Pop.: 1 091 800 (1995 est.) Also called Makasar Makassar Macassar


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In the Southwest region is a port city, known as Ujung Pandang (formerly Makassar).
He also worked as an applied anthropologist on several USAID projects in Indonesia and was director of the Social Science Training Station at Hassanuddin University, Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi 1976-77.
Ujung Pandang is not Batu, so he also expects to be looked at as an outsider.
 
 
 
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