Nižná Boca (Hungarian: Szentivánboca) is a village and municipality in Liptovský Mikuláš District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.

Under difficult circumstances, planted crops grown are exposed to severe weather conditions.

Vyšná Boca is a little, originally a mining village (altitude 950 m), at the end of the Bocianska dolina (Stork Valley) below Čertovica and Rovná hoľa.

In the past, iron, gold and antimony were mined here, later the inhabitants dealt with agriculture, work in woods and stock-raising.

Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Nižná Boca was part of Liptó County within the Kingdom of Hungary.