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Situated in the midst of the southern Nevada desert, Las Vegas is the largest city in the state of . Nicknamed Sin City, Las Vegas and its surrounding communities are famed for their mega-casino resorts, often lavishly decorated with names and themes meant to evoke romance, mystery, and exotic destinations.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Henderson and East and North Las Vegas.

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Henderson is the second largest city in . The border between Henderson and Las Vegas has become virtually nonexistent: one city butts up against the other. This article covers Henderson, and Las Vegas east of and south of the airport.

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in is a city in its own right within the Las Vegas metropolitan area. With a population in 2019 of 252,000, it's the fourth largest city in the state, and is primarily residential with some industry.

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The Las Vegas Strip is the main street of Las Vegas, offering boundless entertainment opportunities through gambling, restaurants, shows and more. Visitors with money to spend and the energy for nightlife will get the most out of , although there are attractions around for families and travelers on a budget as well.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Harry Reid International Airport and West of I-15.

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, formerly known as McCarran International Airport, is the main airport of Las Vegas. The gate areas are famously full of slot machines, fittingly enough for Sin City.

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This article comprises the part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area that is , but south of Summerlin Parkway and US 95. Many just-off-strip attractions and lodging can be found here, as well as Chinatown Vegas along a 3 mile stretch of Spring Mountain Rd.

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is the central business district and historic center of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is the original townsite, and the Downtown Gaming Area was the primary gambling district of Las Vegas prior to the Strip.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Strat and Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel.

Hotel
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is a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It includes a 1,149 ft observation tower, the tallest in the United States. It is also the second-tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere, surpassed only by the in Toronto, Ontario.

Casino
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Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel, formerly Binion's Horseshoe, is a casino on along the pedestrian mall in , , United States.

Museum
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The in Las Vegas, , , features signs from old casinos and other businesses displayed outdoors on 2.27 acres. Efforts to establish a neon sign museum were underway in the late 1980s, but stalled due to a lack of resources.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winchester and West Las Vegas.

Town
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is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in , , United States that contains part of the . It is one of a number of CDPs in the unincorporated urbanized area directly south of Las Vegas.

Neighborhood
is a historic neighborhood in Las Vegas, . This 3.5 sq mi area is located northwest of the and the "Spaghetti Bowl" interchange of I-15 and I-11/US 95.

Neighborhood
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was designed in 1949 by Paul Revere Williams and is named after Thomas L. Berkley, an attorney from . The historic district contained 148 homes.

Las Vegas

Latitude
36.1674° or 36° 10′ 3″ north
Longitude
-115.1484° or 115° 8′ 54″ west
Population
654,000
Elevation
2,001 feet (610 metres)
IATA airport code
LAS
United Nations Location Code
US LAS
Open location code
85865V82+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31551114
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5506956
Wiki­data ID
Q23768
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Las Vegas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Las Vegas”
  • Albanian: “Las Vegas”
  • Albanian: “Las Vegasi”
  • Amharic: “ላስ ቬጋስ”
  • Arabic: “لاس فيجاس، نيفادا”
  • Arabic: “لاس فيجاس”
  • Arabic: “لاس فيغاس، نفادا”
  • Arabic: “لاس فيغاس”
  • Aragonese: “Las Vegas”
  • Armenian: “Լաս Վեգաս”
  • Asturian: “Las Vegas, NV”
  • Asturian: “Las Vegas”
  • Asturian: “Vegas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Las Veqas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Las-Veqas”
  • Balinese: “Las Végas”
  • Bambara: “Las Vegas”
  • Basque: “Las Vegas”
  • Belarusian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Belarusian: “Лас-Вэгас”
  • Belarusian: “Ляс-Вэгас”
  • Bengali: “লাস ভেগাস”
  • Bislama: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Bislama: “Las Vegas”
  • Bosnian: “Las Vegas”
  • Breton: “Las Vegas”
  • Bulgarian: “Лас Вегас”
  • Bulgarian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Burmese: “လပ်ဗီးဂပ်စ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Las Vegas”
  • Cebuano: “Las Vegas”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاس ڤێگاس”
  • Chavacano: “Las Vegas”
  • Chechen: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Chinese: “Las Vegas”
  • Chinese: “拉斯維加斯”
  • Chinese: “拉斯維加斯市”
  • Chinese: “拉斯维加斯/拉斯維加斯”
  • Chinese: “拉斯维加斯”
  • Chinese: “拉斯韦加斯”
  • Cornish: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Cornish: “Las Vegas”
  • Corsican: “Las Vegas”
  • Corsican: “Vegas”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Las Vegas”
  • Croatian: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Croatian: “Las Vegas”
  • Czech: “Las Vegas”
  • Dagbani: “Las Vegas”
  • Danish: “Las Vegas”
  • Dutch: “Las Vegas”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاس فيجاس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاس ڤيجاس”
  • Esperanto: “Las Vegas”
  • Esperanto: “Las-Vegaso”
  • Esperanto: “Lasvegaso”
  • Estonian: “Las Vegas”
  • Extremaduran: “Las Vegas”
  • Faroese: “Las Vegas”
  • Finnish: “Las Vegas”
  • Finnish: “Vegas”
  • French: “Capitale du jeu”
  • French: “Las Vegas”
  • French: “Sin City”
  • French: “Vegas”
  • French: “ville du péché”
  • Galician: “As Vegas”
  • Galician: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Galician: “Las Vegas”
  • Galician: “Vegas”
  • Gan Chinese: “拉斯維加斯”
  • Ganda: “Las Vegas”
  • Georgian: “ლას ვეგასი”
  • Georgian: “ლას-ვეგასი”
  • German: “Las Vegas”
  • German: “Vegas”
  • Gilaki: “لاس وگاس (نوادا)”
  • Gilaki: “لاس وگاس”
  • Greek: “Βέγκας”
  • Greek: “Λας Βέγκας, Νεβάδα”
  • Greek: “Λας Βέγκας”
  • Greek: “Λας”
  • Greek: “Πόλη της Αμαρτίας”
  • Gujarati: “લાસ વેગાસ”
  • Haitian: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Haitian: “Las Vegas”
  • Hausa: “Las Vegas”
  • Hawaiian: “Las Vegas”
  • Hebrew: “לאס וגאס”
  • Hebrew: “לאס וגס”
  • Hebrew: “לאס ווגאס”
  • Hebrew: “לאס-וגאס”
  • Hindi: “लास वेगास”
  • Hungarian: “Las Vegas”
  • Icelandic: “Las Vegas”
  • Ido: “Las Vegas”
  • Igbo: “Las Vegas”
  • Iloko: “Las Vegas”
  • Inari Sami: “Las Vegas”
  • Indonesian: “Las Vegas”
  • Interlingua: “Las Vegas”
  • Interlingue: “Las Vegas”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓛᔅ ᕖᒐᔅ”
  • Irish: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Irish: “Las Vegas”
  • Italian: “Las Vegas”
  • Japanese: “ベガス”
  • Japanese: “ラス・ヴェガス”
  • Japanese: “ラス・ベガス”
  • Japanese: “ラスヴェガス”
  • Japanese: “ラスベガス”
  • Japanese: “眠らない街”
  • Javanese: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Javanese: “Las Vegas”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಸ್ ವೇಗಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Las Vegas”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Las-Vegas”
  • Kazakh: “Вегас”
  • Kazakh: “Лас Вегас”
  • Kazakh: “Лас-Вегас қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Kikuyu: “Las Vegas”
  • Kirghiz: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Komering: “Las Vegas”
  • Korean: “라스 베가스”
  • Korean: “라스 베이거스”
  • Korean: “라스베가스”
  • Korean: “라스베이거스”
  • Korean: “라쓰베이거쓰”
  • Kurdish: “Las Vegas”
  • Ladin: “Las Vegas”
  • Ladino: “Las Vegas”
  • Latin: “Campi”
  • Latin: “Las Vegas”
  • Latvian: “Las Vegas,NV”
  • Latvian: “Las Vegas”
  • Latvian: “Lasvegasa”
  • Limburgan: “Las Vegas”
  • Lingala: “Las Vegas”
  • Literary Chinese: “拉斯維加斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Las Vegas”
  • Lithuanian: “Las Vegasas”
  • Lombard: “Las Vegas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Las Vegas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vegas”
  • Macedonian: “Campi”
  • Macedonian: “Las Vegas”
  • Macedonian: “Las Vegasas”
  • Macedonian: “Las-Veqas”
  • Macedonian: “Lasvegasa”
  • Macedonian: “Lasvegaso”
  • Macedonian: “Naʼazhoosh hatsoh”
  • Macedonian: “Naʼazhǫǫsh Hátsoh”
  • Macedonian: “Λας Βέγκας”
  • Macedonian: “Лас Вегас”
  • Macedonian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Macedonian: “Лас-Вэгас”
  • Macedonian: “ლას-ვეგასი”
  • Macedonian: “Լաս Վեգաս”
  • Macedonian: “לאס וגאס”
  • Macedonian: “לאס וועגאס”
  • Macedonian: “لاس فيغاس، نيفادا”
  • Macedonian: “لاس ویگاس”
  • Macedonian: “لاس‌وگاس”
  • Macedonian: “लास वेगास”
  • Macedonian: “लास व्हेगस”
  • Macedonian: “लास व्हेगास”
  • Macedonian: “লাস ভেগাস”
  • Macedonian: “லாஸ் வேகஸ்”
  • Macedonian: “లాస్ వెగాస్”
  • Macedonian: “ലാസ് വെഗാസ്”
  • Macedonian: “ลาสเวกัส”
  • Macedonian: “လပ်ဗီးဂပ်စ်မြို့”
  • Macedonian: “라스베이거스”
  • Macedonian: “ラスベガス”
  • Macedonian: “拉斯维加斯”
  • Maithili: “लस भेगास”
  • Malay: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Malay: “Las Vegas”
  • Malayalam: “Las Vegas”
  • Malayalam: “ലാസ് വെഗാസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ലാസ് വെയ്ഗസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ലാസ് വേഗസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ലാസ് വേഗാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Las Vegas”
  • Manx: “Las Vegas”
  • Marathi: “लास व्हेगस”
  • Marathi: “लास व्हेगास”
  • Mazanderani: “لاس وگاس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Las Vegas”
  • Minangkabau: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Mingrelian: “ლას-ვეგასი”
  • Moksha: “Лас Вэгас”
  • Mongolian: “Лас Вегас”
  • Mongolian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Nauru: “Las Vegas”
  • Nauru: “Las Wegas”
  • Navajo: “Naʼazhǫǫsh Hatsoh”
  • Navajo: “Naʼazhǫǫsh Hátsoh”
  • Nepali: “लस भेगस”
  • Northern Sami: “Las Vegas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Las Vegas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Las Vegas”
  • Norwegian: “Las Vegas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Las Vegas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lāsfægas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mǣdweburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mǣdƿeburg”
  • Ossetian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Pampanga: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Pampanga: “Las Vegas”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਸ ਵੇਗਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Las Vegas”
  • Persian: “لاس وگاس”
  • Persian: “لاس‌وگاس”
  • Piemontese: “Las Vegas”
  • Polish: “Las Vegas”
  • Polish: “Vegas”
  • Portuguese: “A Capital Mundial do Entretenimento”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Las Vegas”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Pecado”
  • Portuguese: “Las Vegas, NV”
  • Portuguese: “Las Vegas”
  • Portuguese: “Vegas”
  • Pushto: “لاس وګاس”
  • Pushto: “لاس ویګاس”
  • Romanian: “City of Las Vegas”
  • Romanian: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Romanian: “Las Vegas”
  • Romanian: “Sin City”
  • Romanian: “Vegas”
  • Rundi: “Las Vegas”
  • Russian: “Las Vegas”
  • Russian: “Вегас”
  • Russian: “Лас Вегас”
  • Russian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Sango: “Las Vegas”
  • Sardinian: “Las Vegas”
  • Scots: “Las Vegas”
  • Scots: “Vegas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Las Vegas”
  • Serbian: “Вегас”
  • Serbian: “Лас Вегас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Sicilian: “Las Vegas”
  • Silesian: “Las Vegas”
  • Sinhala: “ලාස් වෙගාස්”
  • Sinhala: “ලාස් වේගාස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Las Vegas”
  • Slovak: “Las Vegas”
  • Slovenian: “Las Vegas”
  • Somali: “Las Vegas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاس‌وقاس”
  • Southern Sotho: “Las Vegas”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Las Vegas”
  • Spanish: “La Capital Mundial del Entretenimiento de la Ciudad del Pecado”
  • Spanish: “Las Vegas (Nevada)”
  • Spanish: “Las Vegas”
  • Spanish: “Vegas”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Las Vegas”
  • Swahili: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Swedish: “Las Vegas”
  • Tagalog: “Las Vegas”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Las Vegas”
  • Tagalog: “Vegas”
  • Tahitian: “Las Vegas”
  • Tajik: “Лас Вегас”
  • Talysh: “Las Vegas”
  • Talysh: “Las-Veqas”
  • Tamil: “லாஸ் வெகாஸ்”
  • Tamil: “லாஸ் வேகஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Telugu: “లాస్ వెగాస్”
  • Telugu: “లాస్ వేగస్”
  • Telugu: “లాస్ వేగాస్”
  • Thai: “Las Vegas”
  • Thai: “ลาส เวกัส”
  • Thai: “ลาสเวกัส”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Las Vegas”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Las Vegas”
  • Turkish: “Las Vegas, Nevada”
  • Turkish: “Las Vegas”
  • Turkish: “Vegas”
  • Turkmen: “Las-Wegas”
  • Twi: “Las Vegas”
  • Udmurt: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Ukrainian: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Urdu: “لاس ویگاس، نیواڈا”
  • Urdu: “لاس ویگاس”
  • Uzbek: “Las Vegas”
  • Venetian: “Las Vegas”
  • Veps: “Las Vegas”
  • Veps: “Las-Vegas”
  • Vietnamese: “Las Vegas”
  • Vietnamese: “Lát Vê-gát”
  • Volapük: “Las Vegas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Las Vegas”
  • Welsh: “Las Vegas”
  • Western Frisian: “Las Vegas”
  • Western Mari: “Лас-Вегас”
  • Western Panjabi: “لاس ویگاس”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉斯维加斯”
  • Yakut: “Лас Вегас”
  • Yiddish: “וועגאס”
  • Yiddish: “לאס וועגאס”
  • Yoruba: “Las Vegas”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉斯維加斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Las Vegas”
  • “Las Vegas”
  • “Las Vegas, Nevada”

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