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Provois a third largest city in a state of Utah, located about 43 miles (69 km) south of Salt Lake City along a Wasatch Front. Provo is a county chair of Utah County as good as lies in between a cities of Orem to a north as good as Springville to a south. With a competition of 112,488, It is a second largest metro area in a state at a back of Salt Lake City. The city is home to Brigham Young University, a forlorn of a largest in isolation aloft credentials institutions in a United States, that is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Provo is additionally home to a largest Missionary Training Center for a LDS church. The city is a pass operational core for Novell as good as has been a concentration area for record expansion in Utah. The city is additionally home to a Peaks Ice Arena, that served as a venue for a Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. Sundance Resort is located thirteen miles northeast during Provo Canyon. In 2009, Provo was listed in "Where to Retire" card file as an "enticing city for brand new careers." Provo was additionally listed in National Geographic Adventure Magazine's "where to live as good as play" as a meaningful hub. Provo was creatively called Fort Utah when it was composed in 1849 by 33 Mormon family groups from Salt Lake City, nonetheless was renamed Provo in 1850 for Ã?tienne Provost, an early French-Canadian trapper who arrived in a fragment in 1825. Father Silvestre Velez de Escalante, a Spanish Franciscan missionary-explorer, is counsel a first European commander to have visited a area, in 1776. Escalante chronicled this first European inspection conflicting a Great Basin desert.

Provo lies in a Utah Valley during an betterment of 4,549 feet (1,387 m). According to a Telecom Bureau, a city has a sum area of 41.8 square miles (108.2 km²), of which, 39.6 square miles (102.7 km²) of it is land as good as 2.2 square miles (5.6 km²) of it (5.14%) is water. The Wasatch Range contains many peaks inside of Utah County along a east side of a Wasatch Front. One of these peaks, good known as Y Mountain, towers over a city. There is a immeasurable "Y" done of whitewashed indurate half-way up a high mountain, built in a early biased of a 20th century to honour Brigham Young University (original make up of a body enclosed building a total of all 3 letters: BYU). Wild deer (and rebate frequently, cougars as good as moose) still ramble a mountainous country (and catchy a city streets). The perspective is in all counsel beguiling as good as allows for hiking, skiing, fishing as good as alternative external activities. According to a investigate expelled by a Bay Area Center for Voting Research, Provo is a many backward city in a United States with a competition over 100,000. Local contention of inhabitant governing body tends to decrease inside of a spectrum of to some extent backward to arch-conservative thought. However, Utah's 3rd Congressional District, of that Provo is a part, inaugurated Democrat Bill Orton to 3 undeviating conditions during a 1990s. The state's comparison biased of of a United States Senate is Republican Orrin Hatch, inaugurated in 1976. The state's girl biased of of a United States Senate is Republican Mike Lee, inaugurated in 2010. The Governor of Utah is Republican Gary Herbert, who took bureau in 2009 following a abdication of Republican Jon Huntsman to be US Ambassador to China as good as was re-elected in 2010.