constitution. People seem to forget this when they look at other countries trying to do the same thing. Becoming a free republic is not a quick or easy process. Utah a Western state of the US. It was the 45th state admitted to the Union on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80 percent of Utah's 2736424 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering around Salt Lake City. In contrast, vast expanses of the state are nearly uninhabited, making the population the sixth most urbanized in the US ...