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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Salt Lake City, Provo, Utah, Weber County, Utah, Davis County, Utah, Ogden, Utah, Murray, Utah, Kearns, Utah, Millcreek, Utah, West Jordan, Utah, Bountiful, Utah, Holladay, Utah, South Jordan, Utah, West Valley City, Utah, Roy, Utah, Sandy, Utah, Magna, Utah, South Salt Lake, Utah, Clearfield, Utah, Layton, Utah, East Millcreek, Utah, Midvale, Utah, North Salt Lake, Utah, Taylorsville, Utah, FrontRunner, Jordan River Parkway, Wasatch Range, Utah Transit Authority, Utah Valley Marathon, Conservation Garden Park, List of Utah Transit Authority bus routes, Wasatch Fault, Salt Lake Valley, Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area, American Fork River, American Fork Canyon, Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Wasatch Back. Excerpt: Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban area known as the Wasatch Front, which has a population of 2,238,697. It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada), and the largest in the Intermountain West. The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young and his Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named "Great Salt Lake City"-the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868. Although Salt Lake City is still home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper is Mormon today. Immigration of international LDS members, mining booms, ...
