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Carson City

's capital, Carson City is located along the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada, in the Eagle Valley, just east of , south of , and north of Douglas County and the Carson Valley communities of , , and Genoa.
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  • Type: City with 58,600 residents
  • Description: independent city in and capital of Nevada, United States
  • Also known as: “Altepetl Carson”, “Carson City, Nevada”, “Carson City, NV”, and “Consolidated Municipality of Carson City”
  • Postal codes: 89701-89703, 89706, 89711-89714, and 89721
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nevada State Capitol and Carson City Mint.

Public building
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The is the capitol building of the U.S. state of located in the state capital of Carson City at 101 North Carson Street. The building was constructed in the Neoclassical Italianate style between 1869 and 1871.

Museum
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The was a branch of the United States Mint in Carson City, Nevada. It primarily minted silver coins; however, it also minted gold coins, with a total face value in dollars nearly equal to that of its silver coins.

Museum
The , located in Carson City, Nevada, preserves the railroad heritage of Nevada, including locomotives and cars of the famous Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

Carson City

Latitude
39.1663° or 39° 9′ 59″ north
Longitude
-119.767° or 119° 46′ 1″ west
Population
58,600
Elevation
4,682 feet (1,427 metres)
IATA airport code
CSN
United Nations Location Code
US CSN
Open location code
85F2568M+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150939853
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5501344
Wiki­data ID
Q40881
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Carson City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Carson City”
  • Albanian: “Carson City”
  • Arabic: “Carson City”
  • Arabic: “كارسن سيتي، نيفادا”
  • Arabic: “كارسن سيتي”
  • Arabic: “كارسون سيتي”
  • Aragonese: “Carson City”
  • Armenian: “Քարսոն Սիթի”
  • Asturian: “Carson City Nevada”
  • Asturian: “Carson City”
  • Basque: “Carson city”
  • Basque: “Carson City”
  • Basque: “Carson Hiria”
  • Bavarian: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Bavarian: “Carson City”
  • Belarusian: “Карсан-Сіці”
  • Bengali: “কারসন সিটি, নেভাডা”
  • Bengali: “কারসন সিটি”
  • Bishnupriya: “কার্সন সিটি, নেভাডা”
  • Bishnupriya: “কার্সন সিটি”
  • Bislama: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Bislama: “Carson City”
  • Bosnian: “Carson City”
  • Breton: “Carson City”
  • Bulgarian: “Карсън Сити”
  • Catalan: “Carson City”
  • Cebuano: “Carson City”
  • Central Kurdish: “کارسن ستی”
  • Chechen: “Карсон-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Carson City”
  • Chinese: “卡森城”
  • Cornish: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Cornish: “Carson City”
  • Corsican: “Carson City”
  • Czech: “Carson City”
  • Dagbani: “Carson City”
  • Danish: “Carson City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Carson City”
  • Dutch: “Carson City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارسون سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Carson City”
  • Esperanto: “Carsonurbo”
  • Estonian: “Carson City”
  • Extremaduran: “Carson City”
  • Faroese: “Carson City”
  • Finnish: “Carson City”
  • French: “Carson City”
  • French: “Carson”
  • French: “Municipalité consolidée de Carson City”
  • Galician: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Galician: “Carson City”
  • Georgian: “კარსონ-სიტი”
  • German: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • German: “Carson City”
  • German: “Carson”
  • Gilaki: “کارسون‌سیتی ٚ شأرستان (نوادا)”
  • Gilaki: “کارسون‌سیتی ٚ شأرستان”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍉𐌽 𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Κάρσον Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્સન શહેર”
  • Haitian: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Haitian: “Carson City”
  • Hebrew: “קארסון סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “קרסון סיטי”
  • Hindi: “कार्सन सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Carson City”
  • Icelandic: “Carson City”
  • Ido: “Carson City”
  • Iloko: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Iloko: “Carson City”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Carson, Nevada”
  • Indonesian: “Carson City”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Carson”
  • Interlingua: “Carson City”
  • Interlingue: “Carson City”
  • Irish: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Irish: “Carson City”
  • Italian: “Carson City”
  • Japanese: “カーソンシティ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಸನ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kirghiz: “Карсон-Сити”
  • Komering: “Kota Karson”
  • Korean: “카슨 시”
  • Korean: “카슨시티”
  • Kurdish: “Carson City”
  • Ladin: “Carson City”
  • Latin: “Carsonia”
  • Latvian: “Carson City,NV”
  • Latvian: “Kārsonsitija”
  • Ligurian: “Carson City”
  • Limburgan: “Carson City”
  • Lithuanian: “Karson Sitis”
  • Lombard: “Carson City”
  • Low German: “Carson City County”
  • Macedonian: “Карсон Сити”
  • Malagasy: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Malagasy: “Carson City”
  • Malay: “Bandar Carson, Nevada”
  • Malay: “Carson City”
  • Malayalam: “കർസൺ സിറ്റി, നെവാഡ”
  • Malayalam: “കർസൺ സിറ്റി”
  • Marathi: “कार्सन शहर”
  • Marathi: “कार्सन सिटी”
  • Mazanderani: “کارسون‌سیتی شهرستان”
  • Mazanderani: “کارسون‌سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carson City”
  • Mirandese: “Carson City”
  • Newari: “कार्सन सिति, नेभादा”
  • Newari: “कार्सन सिति”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carson City”
  • Norwegian: “Carson City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Carson City”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Carrsunuceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Carsanburg”
  • Ossetian: “Карсон-Сити”
  • Pali: “कार्सन सिटी”
  • Pampanga: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Pampanga: “Carson City”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Carson City”
  • Persian: “کارسون سیتی”
  • Persian: “کارسون‌سیتی”
  • Piemontese: “Carson City”
  • Polish: “Carson City”
  • Portuguese: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Portuguese: “Carson City”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Carson”
  • Quechua: “Carson City”
  • Romanian: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Romanian: “Carson City”
  • Rundi: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Rundi: “Carson City”
  • Russian: “Карсон-Сити Невада”
  • Russian: “Карсон-Сити, Невада”
  • Russian: “Карсон-Сити”
  • Russian: “Невада Карсон-Сити”
  • Samogitian: “Karson Sitis”
  • Sanskrit: “कार्सन् सिटी”
  • Sardinian: “Carson City”
  • Scots: “Carson City”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carson City”
  • Serbian: “Карсон Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carson City”
  • Silesian: “Carson City”
  • Sinhala: “කාර්සන් සිටි”
  • Slovak: “Carson City”
  • Slovenian: “Carson City”
  • Slovenian: “Carson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارزون سیتی، نوادا”
  • Spanish: “Carson City (Nevada)”
  • Spanish: “Carson City”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Carson (Nevada)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Carson”
  • Swahili: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Swahili: “Carson City”
  • Swedish: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Swedish: “Carson City”
  • Tagalog: “Carson City”
  • Tagalog: “City of Carson”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Carson”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Carson, Nevada”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Carson”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Carson”
  • Tahitian: “Carson City”
  • Talysh: “Karson-Siti”
  • Tamil: “கார்சன் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Карсон-Сити”
  • Telugu: “కార్సన్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “คาร์สันซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Turkish: “Carson City”
  • Ukrainian: “Карсон-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “کارسن شہر، نیواڈا”
  • Urdu: “کارسن شہر”
  • Venetian: “Carson City”
  • Vietnamese: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Vietnamese: “Carson City”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Carson, Nevada”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Carson”
  • Volapük: “Carson City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Carson City”
  • Welsh: “Carson City, Nevada”
  • Welsh: “Carson City”
  • Western Frisian: “Carson City”
  • Western Mari: “Карсон-Сити”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارسن سٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡森城（内华达州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡森城”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡森城”
  • “Āltepētl Carson”
  • “Karson Sitis”

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