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Salt Lake City
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.
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
Location o Salt Lake Ceity in Salt Lake Coonty, Utah
Coordinates: 40°45′0″N 111°53′0″W / 40.75000°N 111.88333°W / 40.75000; -111.88333Coordinates: 40°45′0″N 111°53′0″W / 40.75000°N 111.88333°W / 40.75000; -111.88333
KintraUnitit States
StateUtah
CoontySalt Lake
Govrenment
 • MayorRalph Becker
Area
 • State Caipital285.9 km2 (110.4 sq mi)
 • Laund282.5 km2 (109.1 sq mi)
 • Water3.3 km2 (1.3 sq mi)
Elevation
1288 m (4226 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • State Caipital186,440 (127t in U.S.)
 • Density643.3/km2 (1,666/sq mi)
 • Urban
2,238,697
 • Metro
1,124,197 (48t in U.S.)
 • Demonym
Salt Laker
Time zoneUTC-7 (Muntain)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (Muntain)
Area code(s)385, 801
FIPS code49-67000[1]
GNIS featur ID1454997[2]
Websitewww.slcgov.com

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]

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]

Sister ceeties

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Salt Lake City haes several seester ceeties/touns,[6][7] includin:

Kintra Ceity/Toun Coonty / Destrict / Region / State
Bolivie Bolivie Oruro Oruro Depairtment
Bosnie an Herzegovinae Bosnie an Herzegovinae Sarajevo Sarajevo Canton[8]
Brazil Brazil Manaus Amazonas
Republic o Ireland Ireland Thurles Coonty Tipperary
Italy Italy Turin Piedmont
Japan Japan Matsumoto Nagano Prefecture
Philippines Philippines Quezon Ceity Natiional Caipital Region
Republic o Cheenae Taiwan Keelung Taiwan Province
Ukraine Ukraine Chernivtsi Chernivtsi Oblast

References

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  1. ↑ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 31 Januar 2008.
  2. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 31 Januar 2008.
  3. ↑ [1]. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2010-06-22.
  4. ↑ 2009 Census Population Estimates at the CSA- and MSA-level available here: http://www.census.gov/popest/metro/metro.html
  5. ↑ FDIC Industrial Banks. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2004-06-25). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
  6. ↑ Online Directory: Utah, USA (2005) Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine. Sister Cities International.
  7. ↑ "SLC Sister Cities". Archived frae the original on 2 Julie 2010. Retrieved 1 Mairch 2011.
  8. ↑ daenet d.o.o. "Sarajevo Official Web Site : Sister cities". Sarajevo.ba. Archived frae the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 6 Mey 2009.
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