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As of the 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 56,461. Bossier City is closely tied to its larger sister city Shreveport, located on the western bank of the Red River. The Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area is the center of the region known as the Ark-La-Tex.
Bossier is pronounced: Boz-zher. It is not the parish seat. The parish courthouse is located instead in Benton to the north of Bossier City.
Bossier City is located at (32.517651, -93.691397) and has an elevation of .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 41.6 square miles (107.8 km²), of which, 40.8 square miles (105.8 km²) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.0 km²) of it (1.90%) is water.