Buol Regency

Buol Regency Kabupaten Buol
Regency
Country	Indonesia
Province	Central Sulawesi
Capital	Buol
Population (2010 Census)
• Total	132,381
Time zone	WIB (UTC+7)

Buol Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Buol) is a regency (second-level administrative division) 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 (kecamatan), tabulated below with their 2010 Census population.

Name	Population Census 2010
Lakea	9,700
Biau	27,567
Karamat	8,296
Momunu	13,869
Tiloan	9,955
Bokat	12,609
Bukal	13,485
Bunobogu	8,814
Gadung	11,337
Paleleh	11,323
Paleleh Barat (West Paleleh)	5,375

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.