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Boise (locally / ˈ b ɔɪ s i / ⓘ BOY-see, also / b ɔɪ z i / BOY-zee) [5] is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County.As of the 2020 census, there were 235,684 people residing in the city.
The Idaho State Capitol in Boise is the home of the government of the U.S. state of Idaho.Although Lewiston 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.
States (highlighted in purple) whose capital city is also their most populous States (highlighted in blue) that have changed their capital city at least once. This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals.
The study ranked Boise as the fourth-best capital city in the United States to live in, an increase from its No. 7 rank in 2021.
A new study from personal finance website WalletHub found that Boise is the fourth-best state capital in which to live. Boise was the highest ranked in the Mountain West, with Utah’s Salt Lake ...
Boise has been an official city for less than two centuries, but it is still full of history. The Idaho State Penitentiary was built in 1870 and is open to the public for open and guided tours.
Map of the United States with Idaho highlighted. Idaho is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Idaho is the 13th least populous state with 1,839,106 inhabitants but the 11th largest by land area spanning 82,643.12 square miles (214,044.7 km 2) of land. [1]
Idaho's state capital and largest city is Boise. With an area of 83,569 square miles (216,440 km 2 ), Idaho is the 14th-largest state by land area. The state has a population of approximately 2 million people; it ranks as the 13th-least populous and the seventh-least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states .