Bolaang Mongondow Regency is a

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North Sulawesi North Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the Minahasa Peninsula of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia. It borders the Philippine province of Davao Occidental and Socc ...

Province,

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, situated on the island of

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. The principal town lies at

Kotamobagu Kotamobagu is a city in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the principal centre of the southern part of the province - the Bolaang Mongonow region, which is projected by the Indonesian government to be separated from the rest of North Sulawesi and f ...

, which is now administratively separated from the regency, the administrative centre of which is now at the town of Lolak. The Regency covers an area of 2,871.65 km², and had a population of 213,484 at the 2010 Census and 248,751 at the 2020 Census.

Administrative Districts

At the time of the 2010 Census the Regency was divided into twelve

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(''kecamatan''), but three additional districts have subsequently been created by splitting of existing districts. The districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes. Notes: (a) the populations at the 2010 Census of the communities now forming these three new districts are included in the figures for the existing districts from which they were cut out. (b) Lolak District includes the offshore islands of Pulau Molosing and Pulau Tikus, situated off the north coast. (c) Sangtompolang District includes the offshore islands of Pulau Gogobola, Pulau Paniki, Pulau Tengah and Pulau Tudunya, all situated off the north coast.

Airport

A new airport was proposed in 2015 as a construction project located in Lolak town. The government allocated IDR250 billion (USD17.2 million) for the project. Construction was scheduled to commence in 2018 and complete by 2021. The airport originally will feature a 1400m runway, later to be extended to 2800m. The detailed airport planning envisages a runway both direction 10-28.

Climate

Lolak has a

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(Af) with moderate rainfall from July to September and heavy rainfall in the remaining months.

References

Regencies of North Sulawesi {{NSulawesi-geo-stub