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Sulu Archipelago

American  

noun

  1. an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1,086 sq. mi. (2,813 sq. km). Jolo.


Sulu Archipelago British  
/ ˈsuːluː /

noun

  1. a chain of over 500 islands in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulu Sea from the Celebes Sea: formerly a sultanate, ceded to the Philippines in 1940. Capital: Jolo. Pop: 619 668 (2000). Area: 2686 sq km (1037 sq miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Some of these groups operate with near impunity in the Sulu Archipelago of the southern Philippines, close to eastern Malaysia.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2014

In the 1990s, threats of terrorism made it difficult to access places such as the Sulu Archipelago, where Taylor collected types for a dozen species.

From Nature • Sep. 12, 2013

Other 41st Division troops landed at Jolo, the old capital of the Sulu sultans, to take complete control of the Sulu Archipelago.

From Time Magazine Archive

More serious is a Moslem insurgency movement in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, which demands creation of a Moslem-run semiautonomous state.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hostilities cut short their stay here and they sailed eastward along the north coast of Borneo through the Sulu Archipelago, where their cupidity was excited by the pearl fisheries, and on to Maguindanao.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.

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