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  1. State of the W USA; nickname Beehive State
  2. area 219,900 sq km/84,881 sq mi capital Salt
  3. Lake City towns Provo, Ogden physical
  4. Colorado Plateau to the E; mountains in
  5. centre; Great Basin to the W; Great Salt Lake
  6. features Great American Desert; Colorado
  7. rivers system; Dinosaur National Monument;
  8. Rainbow Bridge products wool, gold, silver,
  9. uranium, coal, salt, steel population (1985)
  10. 1,645,000 famous people Brigham Young history
  11. part of the area ceded by Mexico 1848;
  12. developed by Mormons, still the largest
  13. religious sect in the state; territory 1850,
  14. but not admitted to statehood until 1896
  15. because of Mormon reluctance to relinquish
  16. plural marriage.
  17.