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State nickname: Beehive State | |||||
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| Capital | Salt Lake City | ||||
| Largest City | Salt Lake City | ||||
| Governor | Olene Walker | ||||
| Area - Total - Land - Water - % water |
Ranked 13th | ||||
| Population - Total ( 2000) - Density |
Ranked 34th 2,233,169 | ||||
| Admittance into Union - Order - Date | 45th | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t |
Mountain: UTC-7/ -6Daylight saving time (also called DST or Summer Time is the local time a region is designated for a portion of the year, usually an hour forward from its standard official time. It is a system intended to "save" daylight (as opposed to wasting it by, say, | ||||
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Latitude |
37° to 42°N | ||||
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Width |
435 km | ||||
| ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. It is a geocode system created for coding the names of subdivisions of countries ( subnational entities) and dependent areas. The purpose of the standard is to establish a worldwide series of short a: | US-UT | ||||
Utah is a western state of the United States, in the Rocky Mountains region. The name Utah is from the Southern Ute language . The Paiute and Goshute nations also inhabit portions of the state. Residents are called Utahns.
A group led by two Roman Catholic priests--sometimes called the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition--left Santa Fe in 1776, hoping to find a route to the California coast. The expedition travelled as far north as Utah Lake and encountered the native residents.
Fur trappers--including Jim Bridger--explored some regions of Utah in the early 1800's. The city of Provo, Utah was named for one such man, Étienne Provost, who visited the area in 1825.
Mormon settlers first came to the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. At the time, Utah was still Mexican territory. As a consequence of the Mexican-American War, the land became the territory of the United States upon the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848. The Treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on March 10.Utah's bid for statehood was accepted January 4, 1896, after over forty years of initial request and struggles. The delay was largely due to disputes between the Mormon inhabitants--who had settled in the area in 1847 and were pushing for the establishment of the state of Deseret. The western half of Deseret was admitted to the Union after the discovery of silver, but was split off from Utah as Nevada in 1864. The US Government which was reluctant to admit a state the size of the proposed Deseret into the union, opposed the polygamous practices of the Mormons taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and observed that the region lacked the necessary 60,000 voters required for statehood. One of the conditions to granting Utah's statehood was that a ban on polygamy be written into the Utah Constitution. This was a condition required of other western states that were also admitted later into the Union.
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