Coordinates: 39°N 111°W / 39°N 111°W / 39; -111 (State of Utah)

Utah ( YOO-tah, YOO-taw) is a landlocked permit in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah as well as touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population higher than three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban move ahead is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central allowance of the state, which is home to almost two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with higher 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, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive in the mid-16th century, though the region’s difficult geography and uncompromising climate made it a peripheral part of New Spain and vanguard Mexico. Even even if it was Mexican territory, many of Utah’s obsolete settlers were American, particularly Mormons fleeing marginalization and persecution from the United States. Following the Mexican–American War in 1848, the region was annexed by the U.S., becoming part of the Utah Territory, which included what is now Colorado and Nevada. Disputes with the dominant Mormon community and the federal organization delayed Utah’s right of entry as a state; only after the outlawing of polygamy was it admitted in 1896 as the 45th.

People from Utah are known as Utahns. Slightly on zenith of half of all Utahns are Mormons, the enormous 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 welcome where a majority of the population belongs to a single church. The LDS Church greatly influences Utahn culture, politics, and daily life, though past the 1990s the divulge has become more religiously diverse as without difficulty as secular.