Idaho is a state in the Northwestern United States. The state's capital and largest city is Boise. People are called "Idahoans". The state was admitted to the Union on the 3rd of July, the year 1890, as the 43rd state.
The state is the 14th biggest state by land area and is mostly mountainous. The land area is actually larger compared to the entire area of New England. The state is surrounded by the US states of Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and by the Canadian province of British Columbia. However, the network of locks and dams on the Columbia River and Snake River make the city of Lewiston the farthest inland seaport on the west coast of the continental United States.
The population of Idaho during the year 2010 was 1,567,582, based on the United States Census 2010. The states nickname is the Gem State, since the majority of gemstones can be located here. What's more, the state of Idaho is among only two places in the globe where star garnets could be found (the Himalaya Mountains in India and Pakistan is the other), and is the only place six-pointed star garnets have been situated. In addition Idaho occasionally known as the Potato State because of its well-known crop. The motto of Idaho is Esto Perpetua, which is Latin "Let it be forever."
In 2004, the gross state product was $43.6 billion. During this year, the per capita income was $26,881. The economy of Idaho is dependent on agriculture, with one-third of the potatoes grown within the nation. All three kinds of wheat, Dark Northern Spring, Hard Red and Soft White are grown within Idaho. Nez Perce County is considered a premier Soft White growing locale.
Vital businesses within the state of Idaho are food processing, lumber and wood products, chemical products, machinery, electronics manufacturing, paper products, tourism and silver and other mining. The world's largest factory for barrel cheese, the raw product for processed cheese is located in Gooding, Idaho. It has a capacity of 120,000 metric tons a year of barrel cheese and belongs to the Glanbia group. The Idaho National Laboratory or INL, is a government lab for nuclear energy research, is also an important part of the eastern Idaho economy. The state of Idaho also is home to three facilities of Anheuser-Busch that provide a large part of the malt for breweries located across the United States.
There are a lot of locals businesses vital to Idaho, like for example outdoor recreation. Outdoor recreation could range from wintertime snowmobiling, cross-county and downhill skiing, to the Lewistown retirement community based upon the mild winters, dry year-round climate and a really low median wind velocities. What's more, the many rivers provide locales for a wide variety of activities. Other examples will be ATK Corporation, which operates three ammunition and ammunition components plants in Lewiston. One if defense contact and two are sporting. The Lewis-Clark Valley has the Chipmunk rifle factory and an additional independent ammunition components manufacturer. Four of the globe's six welded aluminum jet boat manufacturers are within the Lewiston-Clarkston, WA valley.