Capital City: 
Salt Lake City
Location: 40.77726
N, 111.92992 W
Area: 84904 sq.mi,
13th Land 82168
sq. mi., 12th - Water 2736 sq.mi., 16th
- Biographies: Famous Utahns
- Bird: American Seagull
- Border States: Arizona - Colorado - Idaho - Nevada
- New Mexico - Wyoming
- Constitution: 45th
State
- County Profile:
29 Counties
- Economy:
- Agriculture: Cattle, dairy products, hay,
turkeys.
- Industry: Machinery, aerospace, mining,
food processing, electric equipment, tourism.
- Flag:
On a blue field, appears
the state seal. In the center of the seal is a beehive, the state
emblem, with a sego lily growing on either side. The sego lily
stands for peace. The state motto "Industry" means
steady effort. A national flag shows that Utah supports the United
States. The eagle stands for protection in peace and war. The
date 1847 represents the year that Brigham Young led a group
of people to the Salt Lake Valley to reestablish in Utah, the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, also know as The
Mormons. The date 1896 represents the year that Utah gained admission
to the Union of the United States.
- Flower: Sego
lily calochortus
gunnisonii
- Geographic Center: Sanpete,
3 miles north of Manti
- Governor: Mike
Leavitt (R)
- Highest Point: Kings
Peak; 13,528 feet,
7th
- Largest Cities: Salt
Lake City, Provo, West Valley City,
Sandy, Orem
- Lowest Point: Beaverdam
Creek; 2000 feet, 48th
- Maps: Map
Map
Directions
- Motto: Industry
- National Forest: Utah
- National Park: Utah
- Nickname: The Beehive State
- Origin of state's name: Taken
from the name of the Ute Indians, whose name means "people
of the mountains"
- Population: 2,129,836; 34th, 12/99
- Song: Utah, We Love The; words and music
by: Evan Stephens
- Statehood: January 4, 1896
- Topography:
High Colorado plateau cut by brilliantly colored canyons in the
southeast; broad, flat, desert like Great Basin of the west;
the Great Salt Lake anad Bonneville Salt Flats in the northwest;
Middle Rockies in the northeast running east-west; valleys and
plateaus of the Wasatch Front.
- Tree: Blue
Spruce picea
pungens