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Utah Education
Utah
features a dry, semi-arid to arid climate, although its
many mountains feature a large variety of climates, with
the highest points in the Uinta Mountains being above
the timberline. The dry weather is a result of the
state's location in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada
in California. In 2000,
87.5% of all state residents five years of age or older
spoke only English at home; this was a decrease from
92.2% in 1990.
The United States dollar,
denoted by USD or the symbol $, is the official currency
used in the United States. Commonly referred to as the
"American dollar, " the currency is divided into 100
cents (symbol ) Utah ranked 34th in population in the US
with an estimated total of 2, 316, 256 in 2002, an
increase of 3.7% since 2000. Between 1990 and 2000,
Utah's population grew from 1, 722, 850 to 2, 233, 169, an
increase of 29.6%, the 4th-highest percentage gain in
the decade among the 50 states. 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 SLC. With
a population of 186, 440 as of the 2010 Census, [3] the
city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which
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