The Banggai Archipelago is a group of islands located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It makes up a regency of Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia, created on 4 October 1999 by splitting the existing Banggai Regency into a residual Banggai Regency situated on the mainland of Sulawesi and a new Banggai Islands Regency then comprising the entire archipelago. From Wikipedia