South Sulawesi, covering an area of 82,768 square kilometers (approximately the size of England), is cultural and geographical diserve. South Sulawesi possesses a fertile lowland rice growing area, as well as spectacular mountains, an arid southern zone and a long coastal area home to many fishing villages, where thousands of boats and fish traps of rattans and bamboo canstill be found.
South Sulawesi has a population of approximately 6 million people. They belong to four major ethnic groups and several other minor ones. In the northern highland, a large expance of the southern peninsula, is the region inhabited by Toraja people, known as Torajanese.
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