Polewali
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Polewali is the capital of the Polewali Mandar Regency
of West Sulawesi
, Indonesia
. It is best known as a site of the disappearance of the Adam Air Flight 574
occurred on January 1, 2007.
It is a sead-side town in the bank of Mandar gulf. Polewali is considered as the largest town in the province of West Sulawesi with number of population about 200,000 people.
Polewali Mandar Regency
Polewali Mandar is one of the five regencies in West Sulawesi province of Indonesia. It is bordered with the regencies of Mamasa in the North, Majene in the West and Pinrang regency of South Sulawesi in the East. It has a population of 365,041 as of 2007...
of West Sulawesi
West Sulawesi
West Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia, which was created in 2004.- Geography :It is on the island of Sulawesi and includes the regencies of Polewali Mandar, Mamasa, Majene, Mamuju, and Mamuju Utara, which were formerly part of South Sulawesi...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. It is best known as a site of the disappearance of the Adam Air Flight 574
Adam Air Flight 574
Adam Air Flight 574 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya and Manado that disappeared near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007. The plane, a Boeing 737-4Q8, was ultimately determined to have crashed into the ocean, from...
occurred on January 1, 2007.
It is a sead-side town in the bank of Mandar gulf. Polewali is considered as the largest town in the province of West Sulawesi with number of population about 200,000 people.