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Boise is the capital and largest city of . Boise offers numerous recreational opportunities, including extensive hiking and biking in the foothills to the immediate north of downtown.
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  • Type: City with 236,000 residents
  • Description: city in and state capital of Idaho, United States
  • Also known as: “Boise, ID”, “Boise, Idaho”, and “City of Trees”
  • Postal codes: 83701-83709, 83711-83713, 83715-83717, 83719, 83720, 83722, 83724-83726, 83728, 83729, 83731, 83732, 83735, 83756, and 83799

Places of Interest

Highlights include Idaho State Capitol and ExtraMile Arena.

Government building
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The in Boise is the home of the government of the U.S. state of . Although briefly served as Idaho's capital city from the formation of the old federal Idaho Territory in 1863, the territorial legislature moved it to Boise on December 24, 1864.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the , on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, . It is located on the east end of campus, between West Campus Lane and César Chávez Circle, immediately northwest of Albertsons Stadium.

Library
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The is a public library system in Boise, , that includes a main library at 715 South Capitol Boulevard and four branch libraries within the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garden City.

Town
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is a city in . The population was 12,316 at the time of the 2020 census. is nearly surrounded by Boise but retains a separate municipal government.

Boise

Latitude
43.6166° or 43° 36′ 60″ north
Longitude
-116.2009° or 116° 12′ 3″ west
Population
236,000
Elevation
2,700 feet (823 metres)
IATA airport code
BOI
United Nations Location Code
US BOI
Open location code
85M5JQ8X+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 59900417
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5586437
Wiki­data ID
Q35775
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Boise” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Boise”
  • Albanian: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Albanian: “Boise”
  • Amharic: “ቦይዚ”
  • Arabic: “بويز، أيداهو”
  • Arabic: “بويزي، أيداهو”
  • Arabic: “بويسي”
  • Aragonese: “Boise”
  • Armenian: “Բոյսե”
  • Asturian: “Boise (Idaho)”
  • Asturian: “Boise City”
  • Asturian: “Boise”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boyse”
  • Basque: “Boise”
  • Belarusian: “Бойсе”
  • Belarusian: “Бойсэ”
  • Bengali: “বোইজি, আইডাহো”
  • Bengali: “বোইজি”
  • Bislama: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Bislama: “Boise”
  • Bosnian: “Boise”
  • Breton: “Boise”
  • Bulgarian: “Бойзи”
  • Catalan: “Boise City”
  • Catalan: “Boise”
  • Cebuano: “Boise”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆیزی، ئایداھۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆیزی”
  • Chechen: “Бойсе”
  • Cheyenne: “Boise”
  • Chinese: “Boise”
  • Chinese: “博伊西”
  • Chinese: “博伊西市”
  • Chinese: “博依西”
  • Chinese: “樹城”
  • Chinese: “波伊西”
  • Chinese: “波夕”
  • Chinese: “貝市”
  • Cornish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Cornish: “Boise”
  • Corsican: “Boise”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Boyse”
  • Czech: “Boise”
  • Dagbani: “Boise”
  • Danish: “Boise”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Boise, Idaho”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Boise”
  • Dutch: “Boise City”
  • Dutch: “Boise”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بويسى”
  • Esperanto: “Boise”
  • Esperanto: “Boizo”
  • Esperanto: “Bojsio”
  • Estonian: “Boise”
  • Ewe: “Boise”
  • Extremaduran: “Boise”
  • Faroese: “Boise”
  • Finnish: “Boise City”
  • Finnish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Finnish: “Boise”
  • French: “Boise”
  • Galician: “Boise”
  • Georgian: “ბოისე”
  • German: “Boisé City”
  • German: “Boise, Idaho”
  • German: “Boise”
  • Gilaki: “بؤیزي (آیداهؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “بؤیزي”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍉𐌾𐌶𐌹”
  • Greek: “Μπόιζι”
  • Greek: “Μπόισι”
  • Gujarati: “બોઈસે”
  • Haitian: “Boise”
  • Hebrew: “בויזי”
  • Hebrew: “בוייזי”
  • Hebrew: “בוייסי”
  • Hebrew: “בויסי”
  • Hindi: “बोइस”
  • Hungarian: “Boise”
  • Icelandic: “Boise”
  • Ido: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Ido: “Boise”
  • Iloko: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Iloko: “Boise”
  • Indonesian: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Indonesian: “Boise”
  • Interlingua: “Boise”
  • Interlingue: “Boise”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐳᐃᓰ”
  • Irish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Irish: “Boise”
  • Italian: “Boise”
  • Japanese: “ボイシ”
  • Japanese: “ボイジー”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಯ್ಸಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಯ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бойсе”
  • Kirghiz: “Бойсе”
  • Komering: “Boise”
  • Korean: “보이시”
  • Kurdish: “Boise”
  • Ladin: “Boise”
  • Latin: “Xylopolis”
  • Latvian: “Boise”
  • Latvian: “Boisisitija”
  • Ligurian: “Boise”
  • Lithuanian: “Boisė”
  • Lithuanian: “Boisis”
  • Lithuanian: “Boizis”
  • Lombard: “Boise”
  • Luxembourgish: “Boise”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Boise”
  • Macedonian: “Бојси”
  • Malagasy: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Malagasy: “Boise”
  • Malay: “Boise”
  • Malayalam: “ബോയിസ്, ഇഡാഹോ”
  • Marathi: “बॉइझी”
  • Marathi: “बॉईजे”
  • Mazanderani: “بویزی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Boise”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოისე”
  • Mirandese: “Boise”
  • Navajo: “Tʼiis Ląʼí Tóńlį́”
  • Neapolitan: “Boise”
  • Newari: “बोइसी, आइदाहो”
  • Newari: “बोइसी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boise”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Boise”
  • Norwegian: “Boise”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Boise”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wuduburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ƿuduburg”
  • Ossetian: “Бойсе”
  • Pali: “बोइज”
  • Pampanga: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Pampanga: “Boise”
  • Papiamento: “Boise”
  • Persian: “بویز، آیداهو”
  • Persian: “بویز، ایداهو”
  • Persian: “بویزی، آیداهو”
  • Persian: “بویزی، ایداهو”
  • Persian: “بویزی”
  • Picard: “Boise”
  • Piemontese: “Boise”
  • Polish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Polish: “Boise”
  • Portuguese: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Portuguese: “Boise”
  • Quechua: “Boise”
  • Romanian: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Romanian: “Boise”
  • Russian: “Бойзи”
  • Russian: “Бойсе”
  • Russian: “Бойси”
  • Samogitian: “Boisė”
  • Sanskrit: “बाय्सी”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱳᱭᱤᱥ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱳᱭᱮᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Boise”
  • Scots: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Scots: “Boise”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Boise”
  • Serbian: “Boise”
  • Serbian: “Бојзи”
  • Serbian: “Бојси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Boise”
  • Sicilian: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Sicilian: “Boise”
  • Silesian: “Boise”
  • Sindhi: “بوئيسي”
  • Sinhala: “බොයිස්”
  • Slovak: “Boise”
  • Slovenian: “Boise”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بویزی، آیداهو”
  • Spanish: “Boise (Idaho)”
  • Spanish: “Boise City”
  • Spanish: “Boise”
  • Swahili: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Swahili: “Boise”
  • Swedish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Swedish: “Boise”
  • Tagalog: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Tagalog: “Boise”
  • Talysh: “Bojse”
  • Tamil: “பொய்சி”
  • Tatar: “Бойси”
  • Telugu: “బోయిజ్”
  • Thai: “บอยซี”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Boise”
  • Turkish: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Turkish: “Boise, İdaho”
  • Turkish: “Boise”
  • Ukrainian: “Бойсе”
  • Ukrainian: “Бойсі”
  • Urdu: “بوئس”
  • Urdu: “بویز, ایڈاہو”
  • Urdu: “بویز”
  • Uzbek: “Boise”
  • Venetian: “Boise”
  • Vietnamese: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Vietnamese: “Boise”
  • Vlax Romani: “Boise”
  • Volapük: “Boise”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Boise, Idaho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Boise”
  • Welsh: “Boise City”
  • Welsh: “Boise, Idaho”
  • Western Frisian: “Boise”
  • Western Mari: “Бойсе”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوئسے”
  • Wu Chinese: “博伊西”
  • Yiddish: “בויסי”
  • Yue Chinese: “波伊西”
  • “Boisė”

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