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Utah (/ˈjuːtɑː/ YOO-tah, /ˈjuːtɔː/ ^ⓘ YOO-taw) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to its northeast, Idaho to its north, and Nevada to its west. In comparison to all the U.S. states and territories, Utah, with a population of just over three million, is the 13th largest by area, the 30th most populous, and the 11th least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two regions: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, and is home to roughly two-thirds of the population; and Washington County in the southwest, which has somewhat more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin.

Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups, such as the ancient Puebloans, the Navajo, and the Ute. The first Europeans to arrive - in the mid-16th century - were the Spanish. Because of the region's challenging geography and harsh climate, it only became a peripheral part of New Spain (and later of Mexico). Even while it was Mexican territory, many of the Utah region’s earliest European settlers were from the United States; notable among these were Mormons who were fleeing marginalization and persecution in the United States and arrived via the so-called Mormon Trail. In 1848, after the Mexican–American War, the region was annexed by the U.S., becoming part of the Utah Territory, which included what later became Colorado and Nevada. Disputes between the dominant Mormon community and the federal government delayed Utah's admission as a state: in 1896, after it agreed to outlaw polygamy, it was admitted as the 45th state.

People from Utah are known as Utahns. Slightly over half of all Utahns are Mormons, the vast majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which has its world headquarters in Salt Lake City; Utah is the only state where a majority of the population belongs to a single church. The LDS Church greatly influences Utahn culture, politics, and daily life, though since the 1990s the state has become more religiously diverse as well as secular. (Full article...)

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Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879 – October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the School of Medicine and served as its first dean, and later became head of the zoology department. He also taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for over a decade at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he described species from around the world.

Chamberlin was a prolific taxonomist who named over 4,000 new animal species in over 400 scientific publications. He specialized in arachnids (spiders, scorpions, and relatives) and myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, and relatives), ranking among the most prolific arachnologists and myriapodologists in history. He described over 1,400 species of spiders, 1,000 species of millipedes, and the majority of North American centipedes, although the quantity of his output was not always matched with quality, leaving a mixed legacy to his successors. He also did pioneering ethnobiological studies with the Goshute and other indigenous people of the Great Basin, cataloging indigenous names and cultural uses of plants and animals. Chamberlin was celebrated by his colleagues at the University of Utah, however he was disliked among some arachnologists, including some of his former students. After retirement he continued to write, publishing on the history of education in his home state, especially that of the University of Utah. (Full article...)

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November 11, 1965 - United Airlines Flight 227 crashed while attempting to land at Salt Lake City Municipal Airport.
November 19, 1915 - Joe Hill, a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, is executed by firing squad for murder.

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Michael Okerlund Leavitt (born February 11, 1951) is an American Republican Party politician who served as the 14th governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003, and in the George W. Bush administration as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2005 to 2009.

Leavitt started his career in 1972 and worked in the insurance and risk management industry until 1992. From 1984 until his election as Governor of Utah in 1992, he was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Leavitt Group. As governor, Leavitt worked to establish Western Governors University and the first charter schools in Utah, led the state's preparation for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, was a leader in the implementation of a modernized system of sales tax on e-commerce throughout the United States, negotiated the largest land exchanges between a state and the federal government, initiated an engineering education initiative, worked on the devolution of welfare to the states, and established the Utah Centennial Highway Fund which featured design build highway construction. (Full article...)

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The Blue Castle Project is a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah, United States. Originally projected for completion in 2030, it would have two 1500 megawatt reactors. It was originally proposed in 2007 by Transition Power Development, which became Blue Castle Holdings (BCH) in 2009. With no updates on the Blue Castle Holdings website since 2019, the project seems to be on hold.

After winning a three-year legal battle over water rights, Blue Castle began reviewing construction companies to work on building the plant. The project is projected to cost up to $20 billion, though BCH projected only $13.4 billion as of January 2017. The plant is expected to produce up to 4000 short term jobs during construction and about 1000 long term jobs in the Green River area. (Full article...)

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...that Rainbow Bridge (pictured) is the world's largest natural bridge?
...that Gunnison, Utah was named for John W. Gunnison, an explorer and early advocate of Mormon self-rule in Utah?
...that at 11,928 feet (3,636 m), Mount Nebo is the highest mountain in the Wasatch Range?

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Moab, Utah, from the northern canyon walls that surround it.

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Image 1The Huntsman Cancer Institute on the campus of the University of Utah (U of U) in Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 2Bryce Canyon National Park Amphitheater (winter view) (from Utah)
Image 3Hovenweep Castle, San Juan River basin (from History of Utah)
Image 4Utah population density map (from Utah)
Image 5Navajo homeland in Monument Valley (from History of Utah)
Image 6Pando, considered one of the heaviest and oldest organisms on Earth. (from Utah)
Image 7FrontRunner commuter rail runs between Ogden and Provo via Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 8Jake Garn (top-right), former Senator of Utah (1974–1993), and astronaut on Space Shuttle flight STS-51-D (from Utah)
Image 9First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 10The Utah Jazz playing against the Houston Rockets (from Utah)
Image 11Deseret Village recreates Utah pioneer life for tourists. (from Utah)
Image 12Location where the Mormons entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, now the This is the Place Monument and Deseret Village (from History of Utah)
Image 13Arches National Park (from Utah)
Image 14Children reading in Santa Clara, Utah, in 1940 (from Utah)
Image 15Kolob Canyons at Zion National Park (from Utah)
Image 16Robbie Russell playing for Real Salt Lake (from Utah)
Image 17The boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret—as proposed in 1849—are shown with a dotted line. The Utah Territory as organized in 1850, is shown in blue with black outline. (from History of Utah)
Image 18Farms and ranches (from Utah)
Image 19Fremont petroglyph, Dinosaur National Monument (from History of Utah)
Image 20The California gull is the Utah state bird. (from Utah)
Image 21Map showing Utah in 1838 when it was part of Mexico, Britannica 7th edition (from Utah)
Image 22Zion National Park in southern Utah is one of five national parks in the state. (from Utah)
Image 23Utah State Route 12 through Red Canyon in Dixie National Forest (from Utah)
Image 24The Scott Matheson Courthouse is the seat of the Utah Supreme Court. (from Utah)
Image 25Brigham Young led the first Mormon pioneers to the Great Salt Lake. (from Utah)
Image 26Sri Sri Radha Krishna (Hindu) Temple (from Utah)
Image 27Joshua trees, yuccas, and cholla cactus occupy the far southwest corner of the state in the Mojave Desert (from Utah)
Image 28Salt Lake International Airport is the largest airport in Utah (from Utah)
Image 29The LDS Salt Lake Temple, the primary attraction in the city's Temple Square (from Utah)
Image 30The Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 31One out of every 14 flash memory chips in the world is produced in Lehi, Utah. (from Utah)
Image 32A sketch of Salt Lake City in 1860 (from Utah)
Image 33Mining has been a large industry in Utah since it was first settled. The Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake County is one of the largest open pit mines in the world. (from Utah)
Image 34The Golden Spike where the First transcontinental railroad was completed in the U.S. on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah (from Utah)
Image 35Little Cottonwood Canyon (from Utah)
Image 36American Fork Canyon (from Utah)
Image 37Köppen climate types of Utah, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Utah)

Map of counties in Utah by racial plurality, per the 2020 US Census

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Image 39Pariette Wetlands (from Utah)
Image 40Map showing Utah in 1838 when it was part of Mexico. From Britannica 7th edition. (from History of Utah)
Image 41The Rocky Mountain elk is the Utah state mammal. (from Utah)
Image 42TRAX light rail serves Salt Lake County (from Utah)
Image 43Zion National Park (from History of Utah)
Image 44"Welcome to Utah" sign (from Utah)
Image 45Snow in Rose Park, Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 46The Wasatch Front region has seen large growth and development despite the economic downturn. Shown is the City Creek Center project, a development in downtown Salt Lake City with a price tag of $1.5–2.5 billion. (from Utah)
Image 47Deer Creek Reservoir (from Utah)
Image 48Western black widow spider (from Utah)
Image 49The Eyring Science Center on the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah (from Utah)
Image 50Downtown Salt Lake City in the early 20th century. (from History of Utah)
Image 51The Olympic cauldron is lit by the 'Miracle on Ice' 1980 U.S. men's ice hockey team at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 52Utah county boundaries (from Utah)
Image 53Bonneville Salt Flats (from History of Utah)

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Nickname: The Beehive State
Capital and largest city: Salt Lake City
Total area: 219,887 km² (84,899 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census): 2,736,424
Date admitted to the Union: January 4, 1896

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Animal: Rocky Mountain elk
Bird: California seagull
Fish: Bonneville cutthroat trout
Flower: Sego lily
Grass: Indian ricegrass
Insect: European honey bee
Tree: Quaking aspen
Fossil: Allosaurus
Gemstone: Topaz
Mineral: Copper
Motto: Industry
Rock: Coal
Snackfood: Green Jell-O
Song: "Utah, This Is the Place"

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