Boya, Western Australia
Boya | |||||||||||||
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Boya from the south, Mountain Quarry and Greenmount Hill behind | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 31°54′50″S 116°03′22″E / 31.914°S 116.056°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
| City | Perth | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 669 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 6056 | ||||||||||||
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Boya is a locality on the Darling Scarp, in the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia; it is on the south side of Greenmount Hill, and just west of Darlington.
The name of Boya is a local Noongar word meaning 'stone' or 'rock', and was imposed by government officials in the early twentieth century.