Salt Lake Ceety
| Salt Lake Ceety | |
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| — State Caipital — | |
| City of Salt Lake City | |
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| Eik-name(s): "The Crossroads o the Wast" | |
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| Coordinates: 40°45′0″N 111°53′0″W / 40.75°N 111.883333°W | |
| Kintra | Unitit States |
| State | Utah |
| Coonty | Salt Lake |
| Govrenment | |
| - Mayor | Ralph Becker |
| Aurie | |
| - State Caipital | 110.4 sq mi (285.9 km2) |
| - Laund | 109.1 sq mi (282.5 km2) |
| - Watter | 1.3 sq mi (3.3 km2) |
| Hicht | 1,288 m (4,226 ft) |
| Indwallers (2010) | |
| - State Caipital | 186,440 (127t in U.S.) |
| - Densitie | 1,666.1/sq mi (643.3/km2) |
| - Urban | 2,238,697 |
| - Metro | 1,124,197 (48t in U.S.) |
| - Demonym | Salt Laker |
| Time zone | Muntain (UTC-7) |
| - Simmer (DST) | Muntain (UTC-6) |
| Aurie code(s) | 385, 801 |
| FIPS code | 49-67000[1] |
| GNIS featur ID | 1454997[2] |
| Wabsteid | slcgov.com |
Salt Lake Ceety is the caipital an the maist populous ceety o Utah. The name o the ceety is aften shortened tae Salt Lake or SLC. Wi an estimatit population o 183,171,[3] the ceety lies in the Salt Lake Ceety metropolitan aurie, which haes a total estimatit population o 1,130,293. Salt Lake Ceety is further situatit in a lairger urban aurie kent as the Wasatch Front, which haes an estimatit population o 2,298,915.[4]
The ceety wis foondit in 1847 as Great Salt Lake Ceety bi a group o Mormon pioneers led bi their prophet, Brigham Young, who left ahint hostility an violence in the Midwastren Unitit States. They extensively irrigatit an cultivatit the arid valley an faced prosecution frae the U.S. govrenment for their practice o polygamy, which wis offeecially discontinued in 1890. Although Salt Lake Ceety is still hame tae the heidquarters o The Kirk o Jesus Christ o Latter-day Saunts (LDS, an aa kent as the Mormon Kirk), less than hauf the population o Salt Lake Ceety proper is Mormon the day.
Minin booms an the construction o the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, an the ceety wis nicknamed the Crossroads o the Wast. Salt Lake Ceety haes syne developed a strang ootdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiin. Salt Lake Ceety wis host tae the 2002 Winter Olympics an is the industrial bankin center o the Unitit States.[5]
Sister ceeties[edit]
Salt Lake Ceety haes several seester cities/touns,[6][7] includin:
| Kintra | Ceety/Toun | Coonty / Destrict / Region / State | |||
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Bolivie | Oruro |  |
Oruro Depairtment | |
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Bosnie an Herzegovinae |  |
Sarajevo |  |
Sarajevo Canton[8] |
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Brazil |  |
Manaus |  |
Amazonas |
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Ireland | Thurles | Coonty Tipperary | ||
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Italy |  |
Turin |  |
Piedmont |
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Japan |  |
Matsumoto | Nagano Prefecture | |
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Philippines |  |
Quezon Ceety | Natiional Caipital Region | |
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Taiwan | Keelung | Taiwan Province | ||
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Ukraine |  |
Chernivtsi |  |
Chernivtsi Oblast |
References[edit]
- ↑ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 31 Januar 2008. .
- ↑ US Board on Geographic Names. United States Geological Survey (2007-10-25). Retrieved on 31 Januar 2008. .
- ↑ [1]. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2010-06-22.
- ↑ 2009 Census Population Estimates at the CSA- and MSA-level available here: http://www.census.gov/popest/metro/metro.html
- ↑ FDIC Industrial Banks. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2004-06-25). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
- ↑ Online Directory: Utah, USA (2005). Sister Cities International.
- ↑ SLC Sister Cities
- ↑ daenet d.o.o.. Sarajevo Official Web Site : Sister cities. Sarajevo.ba. Retrieved on 6 Mey 2009. .
