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| caption1 = Skyline of [[Downtown Salt Lake City]]
| image2 = Salt Lake Union Pacific Railroad Station, South Temple at 400 West, Central City West, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.jpg
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| population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|title=Salt Lake City city, Utah |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US4967000 |website=Census – Geography Profile |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=October 23, 2021}}</ref>
| population_density_sq_mi = 1797.52
| population_est = 209593
| population_urban = 1,178,533 (US: [[List of United States urban areas|41st]])
| population_density_urban_km2 = 1,514.7
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| website = {{URL|www.slcgov.com|Salt Lake City Government}}
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| pop_est_footnotes = <ref name="USCensusEst2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2019.html|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref>
| area_footnotes = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2019">{{cite web|title=2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_49.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref>
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Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847, by early pioneer settlers led by [[Brigham Young]] who were seeking to escape persecution they had experienced while living farther east. The [[Mormon pioneers]], as they would come to be known, entered a semi-arid valley and immediately began planning and building an extensive irrigation network which could feed the population and foster future growth. Salt Lake City's street grid system is based on a standard compass grid plan, with the southeast corner of [[Temple Square]] (the area containing the [[Salt Lake Temple]] in downtown Salt Lake City) serving as the origin of the [[Salt Lake meridian]]. Owing to its proximity to the [[Great Salt Lake]], the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City. In 1868, the word "Great" was dropped from the city's name.<ref>{{cite book|last=Van Cott|first=John W.|title=Utah place names: a comprehensive guide to the origins of geographic names: a compilation|publisher=[[University of Utah Press]]|year=1990|isbn=978-0-87480-345-7|page=327|id=Accessed July 25, 2011}}</ref> Immigration of international members of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), [[Mining|mining booms]], and the construction of the [[first transcontinental railroad]] brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed "The Crossroads of the West". It was traversed by the [[Lincoln Highway]], the first transcontinental highway, in 1913. Two major cross-country freeways, [[Interstate 15 in Utah|I-15]] and [[Interstate 80 in Utah|I-80]], now intersect in the city. The city also has a [[belt highway|belt route]], I-215.
Salt Lake City has developed a strong tourist industry based primarily on [[skiing]], [[outdoor recreation]], and [[religious tourism]]. It hosted the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] and is a candidate city for the [[
Sustained [[drought]] in Utah has recently strained Salt Lake City's [[water security]], caused the Great Salt Lake level to drop to record low levels,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slc.gov/mayor/drought/ |title= Drought 2022|website=www.slc.gov |access-date=April 16, 2022}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Great Salt Lake Reaches New Historic Low |url=https://www.usgs.gov/news/great-salt-lake-reaches-new-historic-low |website=USGS |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=April 16, 2022}}</ref> and has impacted the local and state economy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.utahbusiness.com/if-we-want-growth-we-need-water-solutions/ |title= If we want growth, we need water solutions|website=www.utahbusiness.com |date= May 11, 2022|access-date=July 13, 2022}}{{title missing|date=September 2022}}</ref> The receding lake has exposed [[arsenic]] which may become airborne, exposing area residents to poisonous dust.<ref name=Flavelle2022/> The city is also under threat of major earthquake damage amplified by two offshoots of the nearby [[Wasatch Fault]] that join underneath the downtown area.<ref name=USGS2021/>
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{{Main|Geography of Salt Lake City}}
[[File:Salt Lake City by Sentinel-2, 2020-07-06.jpg|left|thumb|Satellite photo of Salt Lake County]]
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[[File:Salt Lake City 2013-06-08.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Salt Lake City and adjacent suburbs, facing south]]
Salt Lake City has an area of {{convert|110.4|mi2|km2}} and an average elevation of {{convert|4327|ft|m}} [[Above mean sea level|above sea level]]. The lowest point within the boundaries of the city is {{convert|4210|ft|m}} near the [[Jordan River (Utah)|Jordan River]] and the Great Salt Lake, and the highest is [[Grandview Peak]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grandview+Peak/@40.8516281,-111.7609103,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87525be5b429c7ad:0x945520f494c12167!8m2!3d40.8516128!4d-111.7521555 |title=''Grandview Peak'' Google Maps (accessed 27 March 2019) |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328031147/https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grandview%2BPeak/@40.8516281,-111.7609103,15z/data%3D!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87525be5b429c7ad:0x945520f494c12167!8m2!3d40.8516128!4d-111.7521555 |archive-date=March 28, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> at {{convert|9410|ft|0}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Area Information – Frequently Asked Questions|publisher=Salt Lake City Corporation|url=http://www.slcgov.com/info/area_info/faq_new.htm|access-date=December 11, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024020803/http://www.slcgov.com/info/area_info/faq_new.htm|archive-date=October 24, 2006}}</ref>
The city is in the northeast corner of the [[Salt Lake Valley]] surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest, the steep [[Wasatch Range]] to the east, and [[Oquirrh Mountains]] to the west. Its encircling mountains contain several narrow canyons, including [[City Creek (Utah)|City Creek]], [[Emigration Canyon, Utah|Emigration]], [[Millcreek Canyon|Millcreek]], and [[Parley's Canyon|Parley's]] which border the eastern city limits.
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| footnote = <div style="text-align: center;">Source:<ref>{{cite book|last=Moffatt|first=Riley|title=Population History of Western US Cities & Towns, 1850–1990|location=Lanham MD|publisher=Scarecrow|year=1996|page=310}}</ref> U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|author=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=October 17, 2014}}</ref><br />
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===Music===
The city has an eclectic music scene that includes hip hop, blues, rock and roll, rockabilly, punk, deathcore, horrorcore and indie groups. Popular groups or persons who started in the Wasatch Front area, or were raised in and influenced by it, include [[Iceburn]], [[Eagle Twin]], [[the Almost]], [[the Brobecks]], [[Meg and Dia]], [[Royal Bliss]], [[Shedaisy]], [[the Summer Obsession]], [[Theater of Ice]], [[the Used]] and [[Chelsea Grin (band)|Chelsea Grin]]<nowiki>. Salt Lake has an underground metal scene{{</nowiki>[[Template:Citation needed|Citation needed]]<nowiki>}} with bands such as </nowiki>[[Gaza (band)|Gaza]] and [[Bird Eater (band)|Bird Eater]]. During the summer, Salt Lake City hosts the Twilight Concert series, a low-cost summer concert series. The series has been a part of the Salt Lake City music scene since the late 1980s. In 2010, crowds peaked at 40,000 attendees in downtown's Pioneer Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fox13now.com/news/local/kstu-modest-mouse-starts-off-first-twilight-concert-series-for-summer-2010,0,5981477.story|title=Pioneer packed as nearly 40K jam Twilight Concert opening|publisher=Fox13|date=July 8, 2010|access-date=December 10, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006095547/http://www.fox13now.com/news/local/kstu-modest-mouse-starts-off-first-twilight-concert-series-for-summer-2010%2C0%2C5981477.story|archive-date= October 6, 2011}}</ref>
===Festivals===
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Print media include two major daily newspapers, ''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]'' and the ''[[Deseret News]]'' (previously the ''Deseret Morning News''). Other more specialized publications include ''Now Salt Lake'', ''[[Salt Lake City Weekly]]'' (a weekly independent publication), ''Nuestro Mundo'' of the Spanish-speaking community,'' [[QSaltLake]]'' and ''The Pillar'' for the LGBT community. Other Spanish-language newspapers include ''El Estandar'', ''Amigo Hispano'' (online only), and ''El Observador de Utah'', which offers free residential delivery. There are a number of local magazines, such as ''Wasatch Journal'' (a quarterly magazine covering Utah's arts, culture, and outdoors), ''Utah Homes & Garden'', ''Salt Lake Magazine'' (a bimonthly lifestyle magazine), ''[[CATALYST Magazine]]'' (a monthly environmental, health, arts and politics magazine), ''[[SLUG Magazine]]'', an alternative underground music magazine. ''[[Utah Stories]]'' is a magazine that covers local issues, primarily focused on the Salt Lake Valley.
[[KTVX]] 4 signed on the air as Utah's first television station in 1947 under the experimental callsign W6SIX, becoming the [[Mountain Time Zone]]'s oldest and third-oldest west of [[Mississippi River|the Mississippi]]. It is Salt Lake City's [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate. [[KSL-TV]] 5, the local [[NBC]] affiliate, has downtown studios at "Broadcast House" in the [[Triad Center]] office complex. KSL is operated by [[Bonneville International]], a company owned by the [[Deseret Management Corporation]]. [[KUTV]] 2 is Salt Lake City's [[CBS]] affiliate. [[KSTU]] 13 is the area's [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate, owned by the [[E. W. Scripps Company]]. [[KUCW]] 30 is
Because television and radio stations serve a larger area (usually the entire state of Utah, as well as parts of western Wyoming, southern Idaho, parts of Montana, and eastern Nevada), ratings returns tend to be higher than those in similar-sized cities. Some Salt Lake radio stations are carried on [[broadcast translator]] networks throughout the state.
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Salt Lake City is home to a few major shopping centers. [[Trolley Square]] is an indoor and outdoor mall with independent art boutiques, restaurants, and national retailers. The buildings housing the shops are renovated [[tram|trolley]] barns with cobblestone streets. The Gateway, an outdoor shopping mall, has many national restaurants, clothing retailers, a movie theater, the [[Clark Planetarium]], the Discovery Gateway (formerly The Children's Museum of Utah), a music venue called The Depot, and the Olympic Legacy Plaza. City Creek Center is the city's newest major shopping center and features high-end retailers not found anywhere else in Utah.
[[File:Salt Lake City 4892084585.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[The Gateway (Salt Lake City)|The Gateway]], where the Clark Planetarium is located.]]
On October 3, 2006, the LDS Church, which owned the [[ZCMI Center Mall]] and [[Crossroads Plaza (Utah)|Crossroads Plaza Mall]], both on Main Street, announced plans to demolish the malls, a skyscraper, and several other buildings to make way for the $1.5 billion City Creek Center redevelopment. It combined new office and residential buildings (one of which is the city's third-tallest building) around an outdoor shopping center featuring a stream, fountain, and other outdoor amenities;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/2006/10/4/19977589/downtown-rebound-lds-church-unveils-plans-for-20-acre-development|title=Downtown rebound: LDS Church unveils plans for 20-acre development|last=Smeath|first=Doug|newspaper=Deseret News|date=October 4, 2006|access-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117101823/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/650196045/Downtown-rebound-LDS-Church-unveils-plans-for-20-acre-development.html|archive-date=January 17, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> it opened on March 22, 2012. [[Sugar House, Salt Lake City|Sugar House]] is a neighborhood with a small town main street shopping area and numerous old parks, which is served by the S Line (formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar).
Other attractions near Salt Lake City include [[Hogle Zoo]], [[Timpanogos Cave National Monument]], [[Golden Spike National Historic Site]] (where the world's first [[transcontinental railroad]] was joined), [[Lagoon Amusement Park]], the [[Great Salt Lake]], the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]], [[Gardner Historic Village]], one of the nation's largest dinosaur museums at [[Thanksgiving Point]] in [[Lehi, Utah|Lehi]], and the world's largest human-made excavation at [[Bingham Canyon Mine]].
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===Professional sports===
[[File:Energy solutions arena.jpg|thumb|The [[Delta Center]] is the home of the [[Utah Jazz]] since 1991 and the future home of the [[Utah
Salt Lake City is home to the [[Utah Jazz]] of the NBA, who moved from New Orleans in 1979 and play their home games in the [[Delta Center]] (formerly known as EnergySolutions Arena and later as Vivint Arena). Until the
[[Real Salt Lake]] of [[Major League Soccer]] was founded in 2004, initially playing at [[Rice-Eccles Stadium]] at the University of Utah before the [[soccer-specific stadium|soccer-specific]] [[America First Field]] (formerly Rio Tinto Stadium) was completed in 2008 in neighboring [[Sandy, Utah|Sandy]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/2006/8/16/19968866/salt-lake-county-plays-ball-oks-a-deal-with-real|title=Salt Lake County plays ball, OKs a deal with Real: Corroon, Checketts still must iron out some final details|last=Dethman|first=Leigh|newspaper=Deseret|location=Salt Lake City|date=August 16, 2006|access-date=April 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120194519/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/645193551/Salt-Lake-County-plays-ball-OKs-a-deal-with-Real.html|archive-date=January 20, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The team won their first MLS championship by defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy at the [[2009 MLS Cup]]. RSL advanced to the finals of the [[CONCACAF Champions League]] in 2011 but lost 3–2 on aggregate, and also advanced to the 2013 MLS Cup Final. In 2019, the club expanded to include the [[Utah Royals FC]], a professional women's team in the [[National Women's Soccer League]], though the club ceased operations in December 2020,<ref name="royals_ceased">{{cite news |title=Kansas City Returns to the NWSL as Expansion Team in 2021 |url=https://www.nwslsoccer.com/news/article/kansas-city-returns-to-the-nwsl-as-expansion-team-in-2021 |access-date=December 7, 2020 |publisher=NWSL |date=December 7, 2020}}</ref> transferring its player-related assets to [[Kansas City NWSL]]. The city has also played host to several international soccer games.
Beginning in the [[2024–25 NHL season|2024–25 season]], the [[Utah
[[Utah Warriors (rugby union)|Utah Warriors]] is a professional [[Major League Rugby]] team that launched its first season in 2018,<ref>{{cite web|date=September 25, 2017|title=MLR Notes: Utah announces name, Seattle picks venue |website=This is American Rugby|access-date=September 26, 2017|url=http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2017/09/mlr-notes-utah-announces-name-seattle.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926020154/http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2017/09/mlr-notes-utah-announces-name-seattle.html|archive-date=September 26, 2017}}</ref> with [[Zions Bank Stadium]] as its home venue.
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