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Las Vegas, [a] colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-largest in the Southwestern United States.
The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
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Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 978-0-87417-872-2. Moehring, Eugene P. (2000). Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930–2000. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 0-87417-356-6. Moehring, Eugene P.; Green, Michael S. (2005). Las Vegas: A Centennial History.
There are 16 counties and one independent city in the U.S. state of Nevada. On November 25, 1861, the first Nevada Territorial Legislature established nine counties. [1] Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, with 11 counties. [1] In 1969, Ormsby County and Carson City were consolidated into a single municipal government known as ...
Nevada – U.S. state in the intermountain west region of the United States. Nevada is mostly desert or semiarid. Nevada is mostly desert or semiarid. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area , [ 1 ] and about 86% of the state's land is owned by the US government , under various departments and agencies.
The largest municipality by population in Nevada is Las Vegas with 641,903 residents, and the smallest is Caliente with 990 residents. [1] The largest municipality by land area is Boulder City, which spans 208.52 sq mi (540.1 km 2), while Lovelock is the smallest at 0.85 sq mi (2.2 km 2). [2]
Clark County is the most populous county in Nevada, accounting for nearly three-quarters of its residents. Las Vegas, Nevada's most populous city, has been the county seat since the county was created in 1909 from a portion of Lincoln County, Nevada. Before that, it was a part of Arizona Territory.