Buol Regency


Buol Regency is a regency 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, tabulated below with their areas and their 2010 Census populations.
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
164.785,375

Demography

The Buol-speaking people live in the districts which now comprise the Buol regency 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.