Topic - Manado

) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in Sulawesi after Makassar, with the 2020 census giving a population of 451,916, The Manado metropolitan area had a population of 1,365,237 as of mid 2022. - Source: Wikipedia

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