Buol Regency

Buol Regency Kabupaten Buol
Regency
Seal
Location within Central Sulawesi
Buol Regency Location in Sulawesi and Indonesia Buol Regency Buol Regency (Indonesia)
Coordinates: 1.010469°N 121.354250°E / 1.010469; 121.354250
Country	Indonesia
Province	Central Sulawesi
Capital	Buol
Government
• Regent	Amirudin Rauf
• Vice Regent	Abdullah Batalipu
Area
• Total	4,043.08 km2 (1,561.04 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	132,330
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (ICST)
Area code	(+62) 445
Website	buolkab.go.id

Buol Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Buol) is a regency (second-level administrative division) of Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. The administrative centre is the town of Buol.

Administration

The Buol Regency was divided at 2010 into eleven districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their 2010 Census populations.

Name	Area in km2	Population Census 2010
Lakea	324.20	9,700
Biau	95.79	27,567
Karamat	84.83	8,296
Momunu	176.95	13,869
Tiloan	1,562.55	9,955
Bokat	183.22	12,609
Bukal	499.26	13,485
Bunobogu	292.92	8,814
Gadung	194.99	11,337
Paleleh	282.30	11,323
Paleleh Barat (West Paleleh)	164.78	5,375

Demography

The Buol-speaking people live in the districts which now comprise the Buol regency (in Central Sulawesi Province) which borders the Gorontalo province. Formerly mountain dwellers, the Buol now live in scattered villages on the central part of the northern peninsula, to the north-west of the Gorontalo province. The history of the Buol region is one of the rise and fall of small kingdoms and their occasional confederation into larger entities for defense and conquest. Sometimes, the Buol people are treated as a subgroup of the Gorontalo people group due to cultural and linguistic similarities. The Buol language is part of a larger linguistic grouping called the Gorontalic family which also includes the Bintauna, Kaidipang, Bolango, Gorontalo, Lolak and Suwawa languages.