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Capital
City: Boise
City Links: Community
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Location: 43.606N,
116.226W
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- Admission to Statehood: July
3, 1890
- Area: 83574 sq.mi,
14th Land 82751 sq. mi., 11th Water 823
sq.mi., 33rd
- Area Code: 208
- Biographies: Famous
Idahoans
- Bird: Mountain
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- Cam World: Live
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- Classified Ads: Shop50states
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- Climate: Idaho
- Colleges, Universities: 50states
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- Constitution: 43rd
State
- County Profile: Text
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- Courts: Judicial
System
- Current Events: News
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- Department of: Education
Certification
- Driving: DMV
- Economy:
- Agriculture: Cattle,
potatoes, dairy products, wheat, sugar beets, barley.
- Industry: Food
processing, lumber and wood products, machinery, chemical
products, paper products, silver and other mining, tourism.
- Editorial Cartoons: Cartoonists
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- Flag:
A silk flag,
blue field, five feet six inches fly, and four feet four inches on
pike, bordered with gilt fringe two and one-half inches in width,
with state seal of Idaho twenty-one inches in diameter, in colors,
in the center of a blue field. The women represents liberty, justice
and equality. The man is a miner. The pictures on the shield
represent the main industries of forestry, farming and mining. The
cornucopias, or horn of plenty are symbols of abundance. The elks
head represents wildlife. Esto perpetua (Let it be perpetual). The
words "State of Idaho" are embroidered in with block
letters, two inches in height on a red band three inches in width by
twenty-nine inches in length, the band being in gold and placed
about eight and one-half inches from the lower border of fringe and
parallel with the same. Flag adopted 1907 Fly
this Flag
- Flower: Syringa
Philadelphus lewisii
- Genealogical Resources: Cyndi's
List Historical
Societies
- Geographic Center: Settlement
of Custer on the Yankee Fork River, Custer County.
- Governor: Dirk
Kempthorne (R)
- Highest Point: Borah
Peak; 12,662 feet, 11th
- Highway Markers: Idaho
Resource
Manual
- History: Historical
History Channel
- Largest City: Boise
Nampa Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Meridian Coeur
d'Alene Twin Falls
Lewiston Caldwell
Moscow
- Library: Idaho
- License Plates: Idaho
- Lowest Point: Snake River; 710
feet, 44th
- Maps: DMOZ
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- Media: Radio
TV
- Motto: Esto perpetua
(Let it be perpetual)
- Museums: The
Virtual Library
- National Forest: Idaho
- Newspapers: Idaho
- Nickname: Gem
State
- Origin of state's name: Idaho
is a coined or invented word, and is not a derivation of an Indian
phrase "E Dah Hoe (How)" supposedly meaning "gem of
the mountains.
- Pen Pals: Penpalworld.com
- Permanent Residents: Find
A Grave
- Population: Quick
facts 1,293,953;
39th, 12/00
- Public Records: Idaho
- Real Estate: Idaho
- Representatives:
- Road Side America: Idaho
- Soil: Idaho
- Threebear
- Song: Here
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- words by: McKinley
Helm & Albert J. Tompkins
- music by: Sallie
Hume-Douglas
- Sports: Idaho
Teams
- State Parks: Idaho
- Symbols: Geobop's
Idaho Symbols
- Topography: Image
Snake River plains in the
south, central region of mountains, canyons gorges; subalpine
northern region.
- Tourism: Tour
Idaho
- Tree: Western
White Pine Pinus
monticola Plant
a Historic Tree, Today!
- Unclaimed Funds: Idaho
- Veteran Affairs: Idaho
IDVS Military
Links
- Vital Records: Idaho
- Weather: Boise,
Boise Air Terminal
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