Peleng is an island off the east coast of

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu ...

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and is the largest island of the

Banggai Islands The Banggai Archipelago ( id, Kepulauan Banggai) is a group of islands, which are located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It makes up a regency (''kabupaten'') of Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia, created in 1999 by spl ...

(''Kepulauan Banggai''). It is surrounded by the

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and

Molucca Sea The Molucca Sea (Indonesian: ''Laut Maluku'') is located in the western Pacific Ocean, around the vicinity of Indonesia, specifically bordered by the Indonesian Islands of Celebes (Sulawesi) to the west, Halmahera to the east, and the Sula Islan ...

and has an area of 2,406 km². Some of the smaller islands surrounding Peleng of the Banggai Islands group are

Banggai Island Banggai Island is the second largest of the Banggai Islands Regency, Banggai Islands, an archipelago located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The largest island is Peleng, smaller islands of the group are Bowokan, Labobo, Keb ...

, Bowokan, Labobo, Kebongan, Kotudan, Tropettenando, Timpau, Salue Besar, Salue Kecil, Masepe, and Bangkulu. In January 2020 a paper published in the journal

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documented the discovery of 10 new songbird species and subspecies, nine of them found in Peleng.A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna, Frank E. Rheindt1, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Hidayat Ashari, Suparno, Chyi Yin Gwee1, Geraldine W. X. Lee1, Meng Yue Wu1, Nathaniel S. R. Ng, Science 10 Jan 2020. Vol. 367, Issue 6474, pp. 167-170,DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2146, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2146

Inhabitation

The majority of people on this Peleng Island make their living planting

coconut The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the f ...

sweet potato The sweet potato or sweetpotato ('' Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. The young ...

es, or

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. There are five district capitals on the island being Bulagi, Tataba, Liang, Salakan and Sambiut. The island's largest towns are

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and Bonganang.

List of towns

* Basiano * Bongangang * Bulagi * Lolantang * Lukpenenteng * Luksagu * Pelei * Mumulusan * Salakan

References

{{Reflist Banggai Islands Regency Landforms of Central Sulawesi Islands of Sulawesi

Inhabitation

List of towns

See also

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