Boise [2] [3] ( eng. Boise [ˈbɔɪsiː] (local pronunciation) or [ˈbɔɪziː] ) is the administrative center and largest city of Idaho , USA , and the county center of Ada County.
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| A country |  USA | ||||
| Status | state administrative center administrative center of the district | ||||
| State | Idaho | ||||
| County | Ada | ||||
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| Based | 1863 | ||||
| City with | 1864 | ||||
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| Climate type | semi-desert | ||||
| Timezone | UTC − 7 , summer UTC − 6 | ||||
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| Density | 1,227.8 people / km² | ||||
| Agglomeration | 616 561 | ||||
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| Telephone code | +1 208 | ||||
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Boise is located on the Boise River, it is the main metropolitan area of Boise and the largest city between Salt Lake City ( Utah ) and Portland ( Oregon ). According to estimates for 2017, the Boise population was 226 570 people, and the Boise metropolitan area was 709 845 people. In 2010, Boise was in 104th place on the list of the most populated cities in the United States .
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History
The first whites to explore the territory of present Boise were French hunters and fur traders. They were attracted here by forests growing in this arid area along the river . From the French word bois (wood, trees) the name came first of the river, and then of the fortification of Boise (about 40 miles (64 km) west of the current city, near the village of Parma, down the river Boise near its confluence with Oregon State Borough Snake River, a fort built by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1830s, abandoned in the 1850s, but the numerous killings along the Oregon Route prompted the US Army to rebuild the fort in 1863 during the Civil War .
The new construction site was chosen because it was located near the intersection of the Oregon Route with an important road connecting two rapidly developing silver mining areas (the Boise and Ovaichi river basins). In the mid-1860s, Idaho City, located nearby, was significantly larger in population, but Fort Boise, which was advantageously located at the crossroads of transport routes, quickly overtook it, and in 1863 Boise was given the status of a city. The first administrative center of the Idaho Territory was Lewiston in northern Idaho, which in 1863 was the largest city in the Northwest , exceeding the populations of Olympia , Seattle and Portland combined. Idaho was larger than Texas . But after the creation of the Montana Territory , Boise became the administrative center of the significantly reduced Idaho in 1866.
Geography and climate
Geographic Information
The city is located in the southwestern state of Idaho in Eida County, 66 kilometers east of Oregon and 177 kilometers north of Nevada . Altitude - 824 meters . Most of the city is located on a wide, flat plateau, stretching west from the business center. Boise covers an area of 165.8 km², of which 0.5 km² is water.
City Districts
Boise is divided into several areas:
- Business Center ( Downtown ) - the concentration of the economic and cultural life of the city
- University ( University ) - predominantly student campuses
- The North ( The North End ) - a prestigious residential area, several expensive restaurants
- Southwest ( Southwest ) - a sparsely populated area, near the airport
- Northwest - sleeping area
- Warm Springs ( Warm Springs ) - a small, but the most prestigious residential area of the city, there are hot springs
- Southeast ( Southeast ) - a large residential area with low-rise buildings
- The Bench - a prestigious residential area
- West - a residential area with predominantly multi-storey buildings, several large shopping centers
Climate
Boise's climate is semi-desert , with four distinct seasons throughout the year. Summer is dry and hot (although it can be cool at night), winter is cold, moderately snowy. Autumn and spring are short, with frequent weather changes.
| Climate Boise | |||||||||||||
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| Indicator | Jan | Feb | March | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Absolute maximum, ° C | 17,2 | 21.6 | 27.7 | 33.3 | 37.7 | 42.7 | 43.8 | 43.3 | 38.8 | 34,4 | 25.5 | 21.1 | 43.8 |
| Average maximum, ° C | 3.2 | 7.0 | 12.5 | 16.8 | 22.0 | 27.3 | 32.8 | 32,0 | 26.0 | 18.2 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 17.5 |
| Average temperature, ° C | −0.7 | 2.2 | 6.6 | 10.1 | 14.7 | 19,4 | 24.0 | 23,4 | 18.0 | 11.2 | 4.1 | −1 | 11.0 |
| Average minimum ° C | −4.6 | −2.6 | 0.7 | 3,5 | 7.5 | 11.5 | 15,2 | 14.7 | 10.0 | 4.3 | −0.6 | −5 | 4,5 |
| Absolute minimum, ° C | −33.3 | −26.1 | −15 | −11.6 | −5.5 | −1.1 | 1,6 | 0,0 | −5 | −11.6 | −23.3 | −31.6 | −33.3 |
| Precipitation rate, mm | 31 | 25 | 35 | thirty | 35 | 17 | eight | 6 | 14 | nineteen | 34 | 39 | 297 |
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Population
According to the 2010 census, 205,671 people lived in Boise, and there were 77,850 households. Racial Composition:
- white - 85.2%
- Hispanics (all races) - 7.1%
- Asians - 3.2%
- African Americans - 1.5%
The average age of citizens is 35 years. The crime rate is low.
About 15,000 Basques live in Boise, it is the largest Basque community in the United States and the third largest in the world (outside the Basque Country ).
Economics
Boise has a modern, highly developed economy, being the headquarters of several large companies, such as Micron Technology (electronics), Boise Cascade (paper production), Albertsons (SuperValu) (supermarket chain), Simplot (fertilizers and livestock feed), WinCo Foods (supermarket chain), Bodybuilding.com (online sporting goods market). There is a large Hewlett-Packard factory. There are more than 20 call centers of various companies in Boise (including WDSGlobal , EDS , Teleperformance , DIRECTV and T-Mobile ), about 7,000 people work in these centers.
The state government is also one of the city’s largest employers.
Transport
The city is served by Boise Airport ( IATA : BOI , ICAO : KBOI ), the passenger turnover of which in 2010 amounted to 2.8 million people. The airport operates flights to all major US cities west of the Mississippi .
Interstate I-84 passes through Boise, connecting Boise with Portland and Salt Lake City .
Public transport is represented by 24 bus lines (the managing company is Valley Regional Transit ).
In Boise, bicycles are very popular, bicycle paths are actively being built. By the number of people who use their bicycles to go to work (3.9%), Boise ranks 7th in the United States.
See also
- Idaho State Capitol
Notes
- ↑ 2016 US Gazetteer Files - U.S. Census Bureau , 2016.
- ↑ United States of America // Atlas of the World / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 168-169. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ Boise // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / resp. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986.- S. 53.
Links
- cityofboise.org (eng.) - Boise official site