Boone

Boone is a town in nestled in the , part of . It is the home of Appalachian State University and is the county seat.
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  • Type: City with 19,600 residents
  • Description: town in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Boon”, “Boone, NC”, “Boone, North Carolina”, and “Councills Store”
  • Postal codes: 28607 and 28608

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holmes Center and Howard Knob.

Stadium
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The George M. Holmes Convocation Center is an 8,325-seat multipurpose arena in Boone, North Carolina, United States, on the campus of Appalachian State University.

Peak
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is a mountain in the , located in the town of Boone. According to the US Geological Survey, the mountain's proper name is , but it is known to locals and tourists as Howard's Knob.

Community center
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is a historic home located at Boone, . It was built in 1908, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, cubic, Colonial Revival / Queen Anne style frame dwelling.

Boone

Latitude
36.2188° or 36° 13′ 8″ north
Longitude
-81.684° or 81° 41′ 2″ west
Population
19,600
Elevation
3,219 feet (981 metres)
Inception
1872
Named after
Daniel Boone
United Nations Location Code
US XCP
Open location code
868W6898+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154205654
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4456703
Wiki­data ID
Q893055
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Boone” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بون، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Arabic: “بون”
  • Basque: “Boone”
  • Catalan: “Boone”
  • Cebuano: “Boone (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina)”
  • Cebuano: “Boone”
  • Chechen: “Бун”
  • Chinese: “Boone”
  • Chinese: “伯恩”
  • Chinese: “布恩”
  • Czech: “Boone”
  • Dutch: “Boone”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بون, كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بون”
  • Esperanto: “Boone”
  • French: “Boone”
  • German: “Boone”
  • Gilaki: “بۊن (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “بۊن”
  • Haitian: “Boone, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hungarian: “Boone”
  • Irish: “Boone”
  • Italian: “Boone”
  • Japanese: “ブーン”
  • Ladin: “Boone”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Boone”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boone”
  • Norwegian: “Boone”
  • Persian: “بون، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “بون”
  • Polish: “Boone”
  • Portuguese: “Boone”
  • Russian: “Бун (Северная Каролина)”
  • Russian: “Бун”
  • Serbian: “Бун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Boone, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Boone”
  • Slovak: “Boone”
  • Slovenian: “Boone”
  • Spanish: “Boone (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Boone”
  • Swedish: “Boone, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Boone”
  • Tatar: “Бун”
  • Turkish: “Boone, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Boone”
  • Ukrainian: “Бун”
  • Urdu: “بون، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Boone”
  • Vietnamese: “Boone, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Boone, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Boone”
  • Volapük: “Boone (NC)”
  • Volapük: “Boone, NC”
  • Volapük: “Boone, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Boone”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Boone, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Boone”
  • Welsh: “Boone, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Boone”
  • “Boone”

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