Buol Regency

Buol Regency Kabupaten Buol
Regency
A beach near Buol-Paleleh road
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
Country	Indonesia
Province	Central Sulawesi
Capital	Buol
Government
• Regent	Amirudin Rauf
• Vice Regent	Abdullah Batalipu
Area
• Total	4,043.57 km2 (1,561.23 sq mi)
Population  (mid 2023 estimate)
• Total	150,524
• Density	37/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; and 145,254 (comprising 74,624 males and 70,630 females) at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 150,524 (comprising 77,231 males and 73,293 females). The administrative centre is the town of Buol, in Biau District.

Administration

The Buol Regency was divided at 2020 into eleven districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. 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
72.05.02	Lakea	208.55	9,700	11,040	11,542	Lakea II	7	94573
72.05.06	Biau	217.80	27,567	29,516	30,318	Leok II	7 (a)	94563
72.05.10	Karamat	153.10	8,296	9,734	10,267	Busak I	7	94572
72.05.01	Momunu	400.40	13,869	15,665	16,342	Lamadong I	16	94565
72.05.07	Tiloan	1,437.70	9,955	9,384	9,449	Air Terang	9	94566
72.05.03	Bokat	196.10	12,609	15,045	15,947	Bokat	15	94564
72.05.08	Bukal	355.52	13,485	14,746	15,239	Unone	14	94571
72.05.04	Bunobogu	327.15	8,814	9,764	10,129	Bunobogu Selatan	10	94568
72.05.09	Gadung	160.38	11,337	11,912	12,168	Bulagidun	11	94515
72.05.05	Paleleh (b)	386.19	11,323	12,342	12,743	Paleleh	12	94569
72.05.11	Paleleh Barat (West Paleleh)	200.68	5,375	6,106	6,380	Timbulon	7	94574
	Totals	4,043.57	132,330	145,254	150,524	Buol	115

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.