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As someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post. It seems like a term that someone came up with, but it's never caught on.

I've typically heard of us referred to as the Western US (as opposed to the West Coast).

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I hadn't heard of the term either until moving to Utah, I noticed quite a few orgs/business with the term intermountain in it, like intermountain healthcare. But when I was living in the midwest we just referred to the mountain region as "out west".

I'm from Utah, my parents ran a business with the word 'intermountain' in it but I remember thinking it was a strange word. And (aside from intermountain healthcare, which I doubt I would have remembered without your comment) I don't think it's a word I've heard or seen used otherwise.

As someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post

I'm not from the area, but once I started visiting and doing business in Utah, I found it was pretty common. Once I became familiar with it, I noticed it more and more.

I am most familiar with this term in the context of detailed weather forecast discussions.

Maybe that's why I've heard the term so much recently as I just started getting into weather, and weather forecasting, particularly snow.

I could see it as East of the Sierras in California continuing across the midwest. The economic and cultural differences crossing from the western coastal strip in California to east of the Sierras are mind-boggling.

The term is used for regional sporting organizations.

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