Kabupaten Boalemo
A seventeenth-century kingdom, and the first regency to break away.
About Boalemo
Boalemo spreads 147,038 people over 2,567.36 km², which makes it the least densely settled of the six after Pohuwato.
It has the fewest kecamatan of any area here — seven — and its seat is Tilamuta on the southern coast.
Geography
Teluk Tomini forms its southern shore and Kabupaten Gorontalo lies to its east, with Pohuwato to the west.
- North
- Laut Sulawesi
- South
- Teluk Tomini
- East
- Kabupaten Gorontalo
- West
- Kabupaten Pohuwato
History
Boalemo was a kingdom in the seventeenth century before becoming part of Kabupaten Gorontalo.
It separated on 12 October 1999 under UU No. 50/1999, the first of the three splits from the parent regency.
Four years later part of its own territory became Kabupaten Pohuwato.
Figures on this page are drawn from the Wikipedia article Kabupaten Boalemo. The wording is our own.
