Buol Regency

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.

Buol Regency

Kabupaten Buol
Regency
Coat of arms
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
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceCentral Sulawesi
CapitalBuol
Government
 • RegentAmirudin Rauf
 • Vice RegentAbdullah Batalipu
Area
 • Total4,043.08 km2 (1,561.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total132,330
 • Density33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (ICST)
Area code(+62) 445
Websitebuolkab.go.id

Administration

The Buol Regency was divided at 2010 into eleven districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their 2010 Census populations.[1]

NameArea in
km2		Population
Census 2010
Lakea324.209,700
Biau95.7927,567
Karamat84.838,296
Momunu176.9513,869
Tiloan1,562.559,955
Bokat183.2212,609
Bukal499.2613,485
Bunobogu292.928,814
Gadung194.9911,337
Paleleh282.3011,323
Paleleh Barat
(West Paleleh)		164.785,375

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.[2]

References
  1. Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
  2. http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=11021&rog3=ID


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