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Capital city Salt Lake City Biggest city Salt Lake City Surface 219,887 km² Population 3,338,000 Length of highway network 1,529 km First highway 1956 Abbreviation UT Utah is a state in the western United States. The capital and largest city is Salt Lake City. The state has 3.3 million inhabitants (2021) and has an area of 219,887 square kilometers, more than 5 times the size of the Netherlands. Geography I-15 near Nephi, with a view of Mount Nebo (3635 m). Utah is located in the Intermountain West region, just west of the Rocky Mountains. The state borders Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada, and also New Mexico through the 'Four Corners'. Utah is a large state, it measures a maximum of 555 kilometers from north to south and 445 kilometers…

Salt Lake City, the capital and largest city of the US state of Utah, is located on the southeastern shores of the Great Salt Lake. It was founded in the middle of the 19th century by the Mormon prophet Brigham Young, who brought his religious community here to the promised land. To this day, Salt Lake City is the headquarters of the Mormon Church. Welcome to Deseret State The Shoshone, Ute and Paiute Indian tribes were the original inhabitants of the area where present-day Salt Lake City is located. Europeans arrived in these places only in the middle of the 19th century. It was 1847 when a group of 148 Mormons led by Brigham Young (1801-1877) came to the shores of the Great Salt Lake from Missouri. Young was the…