caipital o Utah in the Unitit States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salt Lake City is the caipital an the maist populous ceity o Utah. The name o the ceity is aften shortened tae Salt Lake or SLC. Wi an estimatit population o 183,171,[3] the ceity lies in the Salt Lake Ceity metropolitan aurie, which haes a tot estimatit population o 1,130,293. Salt Lake Ceity is further situatit in a lairger urban aurie kent as the Wasatch Front, which haes an estimatit population o 2,298,915.[4]
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Salt Lake City | |
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State Caipital | |
City of Salt Lake City | |
![]() Frae top left: The skyline in Julie 2011, the Salt Lake Temple, Utah State Capitol, UTA TRAX, the Ceity an Coonty Biggin, Union Pacific Depot an the Block U. | |
Eik-name(s): "The Crossroads o the Wast" | |
![]() Location o Salt Lake Ceity in Salt Lake Coonty, Utah | |
Coordinates: 40°45′0″N 111°53′0″W | |
Kintra | Unitit States |
State | Utah |
Coonty | Salt Lake |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Ralph Becker |
Area | |
• State Caipital | 285.9 km2 (110.4 sq mi) |
• Laund | 282.5 km2 (109.1 sq mi) |
• Water | 3.3 km2 (1.3 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1288 m (4226 ft) |
Population (2010) | |
• State Caipital | 186,440 (127t in U.S.) |
• Density | 643.3/km2 (1,666/sq mi) |
• Urban | 2,238,697 |
• Metro | 1,124,197 (48t in U.S.) |
• Demonym | Salt Laker |
Time zone | UTC-7 (Muntain) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (Muntain) |
Area code(s) | 385, 801 |
FIPS code | 49-67000[1] |
GNIS featur ID | 1454997[2] |
Website | www |
The ceity wis foondit in 1847 as Great Salt Lake Ceity bi a group o Mormon pioneers led bi thair prophet, Brigham Young, who left ahint hostility an violence in the Midwastren Unitit States. Thay extensively irrigatit an cultivatit the arid valley an faced prosecution frae the U.S. govrenment for thair practice o polygamy, which wis offeecially discontinued in 1890. Awtho Salt Lake Ceity is still hame tae the heidquarters o The Kirk o Jesus Christ o Latter-day Saunts (LDS, cried the Mormon Kirk an aa), less nor hauf the population o Salt Lake Ceity proper is Mormon the day.
Minin booms an the construction o the first transcontinental railwey initially brocht economic growthe, an the ceity wis nicknamed the Crossroads o the Wast. Salt Lake Ceity haes syne developed a strang ootdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiin. Salt Lake Ceity wis host tae the 2002 Winter Olympics an is the industrial bankin centre o the Unitit States.[5]
Salt Lake City haes several seester ceeties/touns,[6][7] includin:
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Bolivie | Oruro | ![]() |
Oruro Depairtment | |
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Bosnie an Herzegovinae | ![]() |
Sarajevo | ![]() |
Sarajevo Canton[8] |
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Manaus | ![]() |
Amazonas |
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Ireland | Thurles | Coonty Tipperary | ||
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Turin | ![]() |
Piedmont |
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Japan | ![]() |
Matsumoto | Nagano Prefecture | |
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Philippines | ![]() |
Quezon Ceity | Natiional Caipital Region | |
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Taiwan | Keelung | Taiwan Province | ||
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Ukraine | ![]() |
Chernivtsi | ![]() |
Chernivtsi Oblast |
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