Salt Lake City is the
capital and the most populous city of the
U.S. state of
Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. It was originally known as Great Salt Lake City.Salt Lake City has a population of 178,858 as of 2006. The Salt Lake City metropolitan area spans Salt Lake,
Summit and
Tooele counties, and has a total estimated population of 1,018,826. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger
urban area known as the
Wasatch Front, and until 2003 the Ogden-Clearfield metro area within it was considered part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The total estimated population of the Wasatch Front is approximately 2,150,000.
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