page_title: Kootenai County, Idaho
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kootenai County, Idaho / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Coeur d'Alene Lake.
context_page_description: Kootenai County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. In 2018, the United States Census Bureau estimated the county's population at 161,505, making it the third-most populous county in Idaho. The county seat and largest city is Coeur d'Alene. The county was established in 1864 and named after the Kootenai tribe.
  Kootenai County is coterminous with the Coeur d'Alene metropolitan area, which along with the Spokane metropolitan area comprises the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area.
context_section_description: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,316 square miles (3,410 km²), of which 1,244 square miles (3,220 km²) is land and 71 square miles (180 km²) (5.4%) is water.  The county water area includes Lake Coeur d'Alene and the southernmost portion of Lake Pend Oreille.  Kootenai County is part of the Inland Empire in the Idaho Panhandle.
caption: Lake Coeur d'Alene in Kootenai County
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