Utah

Coordinates: 39degN 112degW/ 39degN 110degW/ 39; -111(State of Utah).

Utah ( YOO-tah, YOO-taw) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a U.S. landlocked state. It is bordered to the east by Colorado, to it northeast by Wyoming, and to its north by Idaho. To its south by Arizona, to Utah’s west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Utah is the thirteenth largest state in the United States. It is the third-largest by land area. With a population of more than three million, it’s the 30th most populous and the 11th least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. The Great Basin is home to most of Utah’s western half.