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,. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2010-06-22. 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 2,298,915.2009 Census Population Estimates at the CSA- and MSA-level available here: http://www.census.gov/popest/metro/metro.html

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.FDIC Industrial Banks . Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2004-06-25). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.

 Sister ceeties 
Salt Lake City haes several seester ceeties/touns,Online Directory: Utah, USA (2005) . Sister Cities International. includin:

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Category:Ceeties in Utah

Category:Coonty seats in Utah
Category:Host ceeties o the Winter Olympic Gemmes
Category:Populatit lochshore places
Category:Planned ceeties in the Unitit States
Category:Salt Lake City metropolitan aurie
Category:Populatit places established in 1847
Category:Wasatch Front
Category:State caipitals in the Unitit States