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Panorama of the Ruby Mountains from Lamoille Summit along Nevada State Route 227 (2013)

Nevada (/nəˈvædə/ nə-VAD-ə; Spanish: [neˈβaða] ^ⓘ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, the 32nd-most populous, and the ninth-least densely populated U.S. state. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's population live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area, including three of the state's four largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state.

Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State" because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on its state flag); due to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the Union benefited immensely from the support of newly awarded statehood by the infusion of the monetary support of nearly $400 million in silver ore generated at the time by the Comstock Lode. It is also known as the "Sagebrush State", for the native plant of the same name; and as the "Sage-hen State". The state's name means "snowy" in Spanish, referring to Nevada's extensive number of mountain ranges capped with snow in winter, which help make Nevada among the highest US states by mean altitude. These include the Carson Range portion of the Sierra Nevada (and about 1/3 of Lake Tahoe by surface area), as well as the Toiyabe Range, Ruby Mountains, and Spring Mountains (which exemplify the sky islands of the Great Basin montane forests), in western, central, northeastern, and southern Nevada, respectively. Nevada is the driest U.S. state, both lying in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada and receiving among the highest solar irradiance of any U.S. state, and is thus largely desert and semi-arid. Nevada comprises the majority of the Great Basin, as well as a large portion of the Mojave Desert. In 2020, 80.1% of the state's land was managed by various jurisdictions of the U.S. federal government, both civilian and military.

Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes inhabit what is now Nevada. The first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish. They called the region Nevada (snowy) because of the snow which covered the mountains in winter, similar to the Sierra Nevada in Spain. The area formed from mostly Alta California and part of Nuevo México's territory within the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which gained independence as Mexico in 1821. The United States annexed the area in 1848 after its victory in the Mexican–American War, and it was incorporated as part of the New Mexico and Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that became an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, as the second of two states added to the Union during the Civil War (the first being West Virginia). (Full article...)

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Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us was an American Facebook event that took place on and around September 20, 2019, in the desert surrounding Area 51, a highly-classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range.

The event, created as a sardonic shitpost by Matty Roberts on June 27, 2019, asked Facebook users to band together and raid the site in a search for extraterrestrial life that conspiracy-theory lore claims may be concealed inside. More than 2 million people responded "going" and 1.5 million "interested" on the event's page, which subsequently attracted widespread media attention and caused the event to become an Internet meme. Roberts later stated his intentions for the event had been purely comedic, and disavowed responsibility for any casualties had there been any actual attempt to raid the military base. (Full article...)

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The 2018 United States Senate election in Nevada took place November 6, 2018, to elect one of two U.S. senators from Nevada. Incumbent Republican senator Dean Heller lost re-election to a second full term, being defeated by Democratic nominee Jacky Rosen.

Heller had considered a bid for Nevada governor but instead announced he would run for reelection to a second full term. This was the only Republican-held U.S. Senate seat up for election in 2018 in a state Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election, and one of two Democratic flips in the 2018 U.S. Senate elections. Rosen's victory marked the first time that Nevada had been represented by two women in the United States Senate, and the first time a Democrat had won the Class 1 Senate seat in Nevada since 1994 (as well as the first time both Senate seats were held by Democrats since 2001). Heller was the only Republican incumbent to lose a Senate seat in 2018; he later unsuccessfully ran in the 2022 Republican primary for Governor of Nevada. (Full article...)

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Image 1Ranching in Washoe County (from Nevada)
Image 2Map of the States of California and Nevada by SB Linton, 1876 (from History of Nevada)
Image 3Great Basin National Park (from Nevada)
Image 4Flag of Nevada, 1905–1915 (from History of Nevada)
Image 5Ethnic origins in Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 6A map that details the federal land in southern Nevada, showing Nellis Air Force Base Complex and Nevada Test Site (from Nevada)
Image 7Nevada territory in 1861 (from Nevada)
Image 8Nevada quarter (from Nevada)
Image 9Population density map of Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 102024 U.S. presidential election results by county in Nevada
Democratic
Republican
(from Nevada)
Image 11Mountains west of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert (from Nevada)
Image 12Sculpture representing a steam locomotive, in Ely, Nevada. Early locomotives played an important part in Nevada's mining industry. (from Nevada)
Image 13Ethnic origins in Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 14The Las Vegas Strip looking South (from Nevada)
Image 15Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Calico basin (from Nevada)
Image 16Goldstrike (Post-Betze) Mine in the Carlin Trend, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 troy ounces (1,100 t) gold (from Nevada)
Image 17Ranching in Washoe County (from Nevada)
Image 18MGM Grand, with sign promoting it as The City of Entertainment (from Nevada)
Image 19The courthouse of the Supreme Court of Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 20Downtown Reno (from Nevada)
Image 21Valley of Fire State Park (from Nevada)
Image 22Map of counties in Nevada by racial plurality, per the 2020 census
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Image 23Cattle near the Bruneau River in Elko County (from Nevada)
Image 24MGM Grand, with sign promoting it as The City of Entertainment (from Nevada)
Image 25A map that details the federal land in southern Nevada, showing Nellis Air Force Base Complex and Nevada Test Site (from Nevada)
Image 26Köppen climate types of Nevada, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Nevada)
Image 27Mexico in 1824. Alta California included today's Nevada. (from Nevada)
Image 28Bottle house in the mining ghost town of Rhyolite; built in 1906 with about 50,000 bottles (from Nevada)
Image 29The Winnemucca Sand Dunes, north of Winnemucca (from Nevada)
Image 30Nevada territory in 1861 (from Nevada)
Image 31The Winnemucca Sand Dunes, north of Winnemucca (from Nevada)
Image 32Mexico in 1824. Alta California included today's Nevada. (from Nevada)
Image 33East Las Vegas suburbs (from Nevada)
Image 34A valley near Pyramid Lake (from Nevada)
Image 35A burro-drawn wagon hauling lumber and supplies into Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1904. In 1903 only 36 people lived in the new town. By 1908 Goldfield was Nevada's largest city, with over 25,000 inhabitants. (from History of Nevada)
Image 36Cattle near the Bruneau River in Elko County (from Nevada)
Image 37Lake Tahoe on the Nevada–California border (from Nevada)
Image 38Goldstrike (Post-Betze) Mine in the Carlin Trend, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 troy ounces (1,100 t) gold (from Nevada)
Image 39East Las Vegas suburbs (from Nevada)
Image 40Mount Charleston (from Nevada)
Image 41The Nevada State Legislative Building in Carson City (from Nevada)
Image 42Little Finland rock formation in Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 43U.S. Route 50, also known as "The Loneliest Road in America" (from Nevada)
Image 44Carson City Mint in Carson City. Carson City is an independent city and the capital of Nevada. (from Nevada)
Image 45Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Calico basin (from Nevada)
Image 46Map of counties in Nevada by racial plurality, per the 2020 census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    30–40%
  
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
(from Nevada)
Image 47Mountains west of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert (from Nevada)
Image 48The quartzite of Doso Doyabi in Great Basin National Park (from Nevada)
Image 49Party Registration by County in Nevada (February 2025):
  Republican ≥ 30%
  Republican ≥ 40%
  Republican ≥ 50%
  Republican ≥ 60%
  Unaffiliated ≥ 30%
(from Nevada)
Image 50Topographic map of Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 51Party Registration by County in Nevada (February 2025):
  Republican ≥ 30%
  Republican ≥ 40%
  Republican ≥ 50%
  Republican ≥ 60%
  Unaffiliated ≥ 30%
(from Nevada)
Image 52The courthouse of the Supreme Court of Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 53U.S. Route 50, also known as "The Loneliest Road in America" (from Nevada)
Image 54The quartzite of Doso Doyabi in Great Basin National Park (from Nevada)
Image 55Köppen climate types of Nevada, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Nevada)
Image 56State route shield (from Nevada)
Image 57Population density map of Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 58State route shield (from Nevada)
Image 59Bottle house in the mining ghost town of Rhyolite; built in 1906 with about 50,000 bottles (from Nevada)
Image 60Map of the States of California and Nevada by SB Linton, 1876 (from Nevada)
Image 61The Nevada 1861 territory boundary (blue) changed three times: 1864 statehood shifted eastern border from 39th to 38th meridian, 1866 May 5; east border (pink) moved eastward 53.3 mi (85.8 km), from the 38th to 37th meridian, and 1867 January 18; south boundary (yellow) moved from the 37th parallel north southward to the current boundary (14 Stat. 43) (from History of Nevada)
Image 62Downtown Reno (from Nevada)
Image 63Nevada quarter (from Nevada)
Image 64Lake Tahoe on the Nevada–California border (from Nevada)
Image 65The Las Vegas Strip looking South (from Nevada)
Image 66The 1931 gambling law helped enable the explosive growth of the Las Vegas area, where the population grew from five thousand in 1930 to over two million by 2013. (from History of Nevada)
Image 67Map of the States of California and Nevada by SB Linton, 1876 (from Nevada)
Image 68Sculpture representing a steam locomotive, in Ely, Nevada. Early locomotives played an important part in Nevada's mining industry. (from Nevada)
Image 69Valley of Fire State Park (from Nevada)
Image 70Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs; researchers dated the carvings to between 14,800 and 10,500 years ago. (from History of Nevada)
Image 71Carson City Mint in Carson City. Carson City is an independent city and the capital of Nevada. (from Nevada)
Image 72Ruins of an early 20th-century mill, Winnemucca Mountain (from History of Nevada)
Image 73The Nevada State Legislative Building in Carson City (from Nevada)
Image 742024 U.S. presidential election results by county in Nevada
Democratic
Republican
(from Nevada)
Image 75Little Finland rock formation in Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 76Topographic map of Nevada (from Nevada)
Image 77Mount Charleston (from Nevada)
Image 78Great Basin National Park (from Nevada)
Image 79A valley near Pyramid Lake (from Nevada)

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... that a Nevada radio station once had a show that played Tongan music?
... that in 1974, a hoard of more than 400,000 silver dollars was discovered in Nevada?
... that Lincoln Fitzgerald survived a 1949 murder attempt and went on to run three Nevada casinos?

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Largest cities

Name	Type	County	Population (2020)	Population (2010)	Change	Land area (2020)		Population density	Incorporation date
Name	Type	County	Population (2020)	Population (2010)	Change	sq mi	km²	Population density	Incorporation date
Boulder City	City	Clark	14,885	15,023	−0.9%	208.52	540.1	71.4/sq mi (27.6/km²)	October 1, 1959
Reno†	City	Washoe	264,165	225,221	+17.3%	108.77	281.7	2,428.7/sq mi (937.7/km²)	March 16, 1903
Caliente	City	Lincoln	990	1,130	−12.4%	1.87	4.8	529.4/sq mi (204.4/km²)	October 1, 1959
Carlin	City	Elko	2,050	2,368	−13.4%	10.44	27.0	196.4/sq mi (75.8/km²)	October 22, 1925
Carson City‡	—	None	58,639	55,274	+6.1%	144.66	374.7	405.4/sq mi (156.5/km²)	March 1, 1875
Elko†	City	Elko	20,564	18,297	+12.4%	17.64	45.7	1,165.8/sq mi (450.1/km²)	March 14, 1917
Ely†	City	White Pine	3,924	4,255	−7.8%	7.64	19.8	513.6/sq mi (198.3/km²)	July 20, 1907
Fallon†	City	Churchill	9,327	8,606	+8.4%	3.63	9.4	2,569.4/sq mi (992.1/km²)	December 18, 1908
Fernley	City	Lyon	22,895	19,368	+18.2%	122.12	316.3	187.5/sq mi (72.4/km²)	July 1, 2001
Henderson	City	Clark	317,610	257,729	+23.2%	107.73	279.0	2,948.2/sq mi (1,138.3/km²)	June 8, 1953
Las Vegas†	City	Clark	641,903	583,756	+10.0%	135.81	351.7	4,726.5/sq mi (1,824.9/km²)	March 16, 1905

‡ State capital and independent city

† County seat

See List of cities in Nevada for a full list.

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