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Nevada Test Site

The Nevada National Security Sites, popularized as the Nevada Test Site until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of , Nevada, about 65 mi northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada
  • Also known as: “Nevada National Security Site”, “Nevada Proving Grounds”, “NNSS”, and “NTS”

Nevada Test Site

Latitude
37.10356° or 37° 6′ 13″ north
Longitude
-116.05833° or 116° 3′ 30″ west
Open location code
85954W3R+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 878673499
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q1344605
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nevada Test Site” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إختبار موقع نيفادا”
  • Arabic: “موقع اختبارات نيفادا”
  • Bengali: “নেভাডা পরীক্ষা এলাকা”
  • Bengali: “নেভাদা পরীক্ষা এলাকা”
  • Chinese: “内华达试验场”
  • Chinese: “國家安全基地”
  • Chinese: “第十區”
  • Czech: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Dutch: “kernwapentestgebied in Nevada”
  • Dutch: “Nevada National Security Site”
  • Dutch: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Esperanto: “Testejo Nevado”
  • Finnish: “Nevadan koealue”
  • French: “Nevada Test Site”
  • French: “Site d’essai du nevada”
  • French: “Site d’essais du Nevada”
  • Georgian: “ნევადის საცდელი ტერიტორია”
  • German: “N2S2”
  • German: “Nationales Sicherheitsgelände Nevada”
  • German: “Nevada National Security Site”
  • German: “Nevada Test Site”
  • German: “Wüste von Nevada”
  • German: “Yucca Flat”
  • Hebrew: “אתר הניסויים נבדה”
  • Indonesian: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Indonesian: “Situs Uji Nevada”
  • Italian: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Japanese: “ネバダ核実験場”
  • Korean: “네바다 핵 실험장”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nevada National Security Site”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Mongolian: “Невадагийн туршилтын талбай”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada prøvesprengningsområde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada testområde”
  • Norwegian: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Persian: “سایت آزمایش نوادا”
  • Polish: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Polish: “Poligon Nevada”
  • Portuguese: “Área de Testes de Nevada”
  • Portuguese: “Nevada test site”
  • Romanian: “N2S2”
  • Romanian: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Romanian: “NNSS”
  • Romanian: “NTS”
  • Romanian: “Poligonul de teste nucleare din Nevada”
  • Russian: “Невадский испытательный полигон”
  • Russian: “Ядерный полигон в Неваде”
  • Spanish: “Campo de Pruebas de Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Emplazamiento de pruebas de Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Nevada Proving Ground”
  • Spanish: “Nevada Test Site”
  • Spanish: “NTS”
  • Spanish: “Sitio de pruebas atomicas de Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Sitio de pruebas atómicas de Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Sitio de Pruebas de Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Sitio de pruebas nucleares de Nevada”
  • Swedish: “Nevada National Security Site”
  • Turkish: “Nevada Test Sahası”
  • Ukrainian: “Невадський випробувальний полігон”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng thử nghiệm hạt nhân Nevada”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng thử nghiệm Nevada”

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