Salt Lake City

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]

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.
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.slcgov.com

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

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

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