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UT Finalist | National Geographic Bee 2013


hello I’m Josh McCoy and I’m the Utah
State Geography Bee winner I’m 14 years
old and I’m from Sandy Utah sandy is a
suburb outside of Salt Lake City and is
the fifth largest city in Utah here is
our city hall and the whole rising to
lift an Asian monument
sandy utah is the home of the rio tinto
stadium a stadium in which the major
league soccer team rail salt lake place
it is also considered one of the home
stadiums of the US men’s and women’s
national soccer teams utah is the 45th
state of the US they came into the union
on january fourth 1896 this is the Utah
State Capitol which overlooks downtown
Salt Lake City and the rest of salt lake
valley
the Great Salt Lake is the largest lake
in the western US it is the largest
remnant of Lake Bonneville an ancient
inland ocean that covered one-third of
present-day Utah and parts of Eastern
Nevada of the area now known as the
Great Basin this lake is five times
saltier than any other ocean on the
planet
Utah is the home of five national parks
arches Bryce Canyon Canyonlands Capitol
Reef and zion as well as numerous
national monuments and historic sites it
is also a popular place for alpine and
cross-country skiing because of a soft
snow called powder salt lake city and
park city hosted the 2002 winter
olympics which made you talk globally
popular
so thank you for watching my video and
good luck to all the other contestants
in the 2013 National Geographic Bee see
you
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