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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 1,257,936 at the 2020 census.
The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.
Jun 26, 2024 · Salt Lake City, the state capital and the seat (1849) of Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., situated on the Jordan River at the southeastern end of Great Salt Lake. It is the world capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 28, 2023 · Salt Lake City, the county seat of Salt Lake County, is the capital and the most populous city of the US State of Utah. Located in the state’s north-central portion, Salt Lake City forms the nucleus of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, which is further placed within the larger Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area.
- Diptarka Ghosh
The settlement of Salt Lake City was not typical in many ways of the westward movement of settlers and pioneers in the United States. The people who founded the city in 1847 were Mormons, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes. At the time of the founding of Salt Lake City the valley was within the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone, who had their seasonal camps along streams within the valley and in adjacent valleys. [1]
A treaty signed in 1848 ceded it to the United States and, in 1850, the State of Deseret became the Utah Territory. Deseret means honeybee, a symbol of industriousness; Utah's state symbol is the beehive.
