The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive in the mid-16th century, though the region's difficult geography and harsh climate made it a peripheral part of New Spain and later Mexico. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. It is bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah ( / ˈ juː t ɑː/ YOO-tah, / ˈ juː t ɔː/ ( listen) YOO-taw) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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