Buol Regency ( id, Kabupaten Buol) is a

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(second-level administrative division) of

Central Sulawesi Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: ''Sulawesi Tengah'') is a province of Indonesia located at the centre of the island of Sulawesi. The administrative capital and largest city is located in Palu. The 2010 census recorded a population of 2,635,009 for ...

Province of

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. 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 2021 was 146,628. The administrative centre is the town of Buol, in Biau District.

Administration

The Buol Regency was divided at 2020 into eleven

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(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021. 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. Notes: (a) comprising all 7 ''kelurahan'' (urban villages). (b) including seven offshore islands.

Demography

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

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.

References

{{Central Sulawesi Regencies of Central Sulawesi