Исходный текст: Юта

The name comes from the name of the Indian tribe Utes, the word means «above», «high up», it meant highlands where the state is situated. «The Beehive State». The beehive is pictured on the symbol of the state. The beehive symbolizes hard-working inhabitants of the state founded by Mormons in the desert on the shore of Salt Lake. The administrative centre is Salt Lake City.

Other names

«The Salt Lake State» The history of the state is narrowly connected with the settling of Mormons appeared on the shore of this lake. «The Mormon State» because the settling of Mormons here played the decisive role in the colonization of the territory of the state. Mormons (Later Day Saints) are members of the religious sekt appeared in the USA in the first half of the XIX century, they are followers of the prophet Mormon who is supposedly one of ancestors of the American Indians. Mormons kept to , polygamy (it was abolished only in 1890) that aroused pursuit of them by American power and forced them to emigrate to the West. The questions of physical health and personal morality take considerable place in missionary propaganda of Mormons.