Boise, Idaho

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Location of Boise in Ada County, Idaho
Coordinates: Coordinates: 43°36′49″N 116°12′12″W / 43.61361°N 116.20333°W / 43.61361; -116.20333
Country	United States
State	Idaho
County	Ada
Founded	1863
Incorporated	1864
Government
• Mayor	David H. Bieter
Area
• City	64 sq mi (170 km²)
• Land	63.8 sq mi (165 km²)
• Water	0.2 sq mi (1 km²)
Elevation	2,700 ft (823 m)
Population (2010)
• City	205,671
• Metro	616,561^[1]
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (Mountain Daylight Time)
Website	http://www.cityofboise.org

Boise is the capital city of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is also the county seat of Ada County.

The Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is in Boise. It is the only human rights memorial in the US.

Origin of name

Although different people believe different stories about the origin of the name, it is generally accepted that the name Boise originates from the French word boisée which means wooded.^[2]

Boise skyline, at night

Notable People

Torrie Wilson: model
Wayne Walker: former football player and Sports commentator

References

↑ "Boise City-Nampa, ID Metro Area; Idaho (2010)". American Fact Finder. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_P1&prodType=table. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
↑ "The name "Boise"". Reference Series, no. 32. Idaho State Historical Society. 1971. https://web.archive.org/web/20090930214321/http://www.idahohistory.net/Reference%20Series/0032.pdf. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

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v t e State of Idaho

Boise (capital)

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Regions	Boise metropolitan area Cache Valley Central Idaho Columbia River Plateau Eastern Idaho Great Basin Inland Empire Magic Valley North Central Idaho Idaho Panhandle Palouse Southern Idaho Southwestern Idaho Treasure Valley Wasatch Range Wood River Valley Yellowstone

Larger cities	Boise Nampa Meridian Idaho Falls Pocatello Caldwell Coeur d'Alene Twin Falls Lewiston Post Falls Rexburg Moscow Eagle

Smaller cities	Kuna Ammon Chubbuck Mountain Home Hayden Blackfoot Garden City Jerome Burley

Counties	Ada Adams Bannock Bear Lake Benewah Bingham Blaine Boise Bonner Bonneville Boundary Butte Camas Canyon Caribou Cassia Clark Clearwater Custer Elmore Franklin Fremont Gem Gooding Idaho Jefferson Jerome Kootenai Latah Lemhi Lewis Lincoln Madison Minidoka Nez Perce Oneida Owyhee Payette Power Shoshone Teton Twin Falls Valley Washington

v t e Cities and towns in Idaho

	Aberdeen \| Acequia \| Albion \| American Falls \| Ammon \| Arco \| Arimo \| Ashton \| Athol \| Atomic City \| Bancroft \| Basalt \| Bellevue \| Blackfoot \| Bliss \| Bloomington \| Boise \| Bonners Ferry \| Bovill \| Bruneau \| Buhl \| Burley \| Butte City \| Caldwell \| Cambridge \| Carey \| Cascade \| Castleford \| Challis \| Chubbuck \| Clark Fork \| Clarkia \| Clayton \| Clifton \| Coeur d'Alene \| Cottonwood \| Council \| Craigmont \| Crouch \| Culdesac \| Dalton Gardens \| Dayton \| Deary \| Declo \| Dietrich \| Donnelly \| Dover \| Downey \| Driggs \| Drummond \| Dubois \| Eagle \| East Hope \| Eden \| Elk River \| Emmett \| Fairfield \| Ferdinand \| Fernan Lake Village \| Fernwood \| Filer \| Firth \| Franklin \| Fruitland \| Garden City \| Genesee \| Georgetown \| Glenns Ferry \| Gooding \| Grace \| Grand View \| Grangeville \| Greenleaf \| Hagerman \| Hailey \| Hamer \| Hansen \| Harrison \| Hauser \| Hayden Lake \| Hayden \| Hazelton \| Heyburn \| Hollister \| Homedale \| Hope \| Horseshoe Bend \| Huetter \| Idaho City \| Idaho Falls \| Inkom \| Iona \| Irwin \| Island Park \| Jerome \| Juliaetta \| Kamiah \| Kellogg \| Kendrick \| Ketchum \| Kimberly \| Kooskia \| Kootenai \| Kuna \| Lapwai \| Lava Hot Springs \| Leadore \| Lewiston \| Lewisville \| Mackay \| Malad City \| Malta \| Marsing \| McCall \| McCammon \| Melba \| Menan \| Meridian \| Middleton \| Midvale \| Minidoka \| Montpelier \| Moore \| Moscow \| Mountain Home \| Moyie Springs \| Mud Lake \| Mullan \| Murphy \| Murtaugh \| Nampa \| New Meadows \| New Plymouth \| Newdale \| Nezperce \| Notus \| Oakley \| Oldtown \| Onaway \| Orofino \| Osburn \| Oxford \| Paris \| Parker \| Parma \| Paul \| Payette \| Peck \| Pierce \| Pinehurst \| Placerville \| Plummer \| Pocatello \| Ponderay \| Post Falls \| Potlatch \| Preston \| Priest River \| Rathdrum \| Reubens \| Rexburg \| Richfield \| Rigby \| Riggins \| Ririe \| Roberts \| Rockland \| Rupert \| Salmon \| Sandpoint \| Shelley \| Shoshone \| Smelterville \| Soda Springs \| Spencer \| Spirit Lake \| St. Anthony \| St. Charles \| St. Maries \| Stanley \| Star \| State Line \| Stites \| Sugar City \| Sun Valley \| Swan Valley \| Tensed \| Teton \| Tetonia \| Troy \| Twin Falls \| Ucon \| Victor \| Wallace \| Wardner \| Warm River \| Weippe \| Weiser \| Wendell \| Weston \| White Bird \| Wilder \| Winchester \| Worley

v t e Municipalities and communities of Ada County, Idaho, United States

County seat: Boise

Cities	Boise Eagle Garden City Kuna Meridian Star

CDP	Hidden Spring

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