Buol Regency

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Buol Regency
Kabupaten Buol
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Location within Central Sulawesi
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Buol Regency
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Buol Regency
Buol Regency (Indonesia)
Coordinates: 1°00′38″N121°21′15″E / 1.010469°N 121.354250°E / 1.010469; 121.354250
Country Indonesia
Province Central Sulawesi
Capital Buol
Government
  RegentAmirudin Rauf
  Vice RegentAbdullah Batalipu
Area
  Total4,043.57 km2 (1,561.23 sq mi)
Population
 (mid 2023 estimate) [1]
  Total150,524
  Density37/km2 (96/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. It was created on 4 October 1999, having previously been the eastern half of a larger Buol Tolitoli Regency. It covers an area of 4,043.57 km2, and had a population of 132,330 at the 2010 Census; [2] and 145,254 (comprising 74,624 males and 70,630 females) at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 150,524 (comprising 77,231 males and 73,293 females). [1] The administrative centre is the town of Buol, in Biau District.

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Administration

The Buol Regency was divided at 2020 into eleven districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census [2] and 2020 Census, [3] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. [1] The table includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (108 rural desa and 7 urban kelurahan in total), and its postal code.

Kode
Wilayah
Name of
District
(kecamatan)
Area
in
km2
Pop'n
Census
2010
Pop'n
Census
2020
Pop'n
Estimate
mid 2023
Admin
centre
No.
of
villages
Post
code
72.05.02Lakea208.559,70011,04011,542Lakea II794573
72.05.06 Biau 217.8027,56729,51630,318Leok II7 (a)94563
72.05.10 Karamat 153.108,2969,73410,267Busak I794572
72.05.01Momunu400.4013,86915,66516,342Lamadong I1694565
72.05.07Tiloan1,437.709,9559,3849,449Air Terang994566
72.05.03 Bokat 196.1012,60915,04515,947Bokat1594564
72.05.08 Bukal 355.5213,48514,74615,239Unone1494571
72.05.04 Bunobogu 327.158,8149,76410,129Bunobogu Selatan1094568
72.05.09Gadung160.3811,33711,91212,168Bulagidun1194515
72.05.05Paleleh (b)386.1911,32312,34212,743Paleleh1294569
72.05.11Paleleh Barat
(West Paleleh)
200.685,3756,1066,380Timbulon794574
Totals4,043.57132,330145,254150,524Buol115

Notes: (a) comprising all 7 kelurahan (urban villages) - Leok I, Leok II, Bugis, Buol, Kali, Kulango and Kumaligon. (b) including seven offshore islands.

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. [4]

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