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Nevada is an arid state of the , lying between and . Most of the state is within the , but parts of the northeast drain into the Snake River and the southern portion is within the Mohave Desert and the Colorado river drainage.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Las Vegas and Carson City.

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Situated in the midst of the southern Nevada desert, is the largest city in the state of Nevada. Nicknamed Sin City, 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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Nevada's capital, 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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, the "Biggest Little City in the World", is in the beautiful north-west region of the State of Nevada, right at the base of the mountain range.

Destinations to Discover

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is a region of Nevada. Most famous for , this region is also home to Area 51, beautiful rocky canyons, and barren desert landscapes. It comprises Clark County, Esmeralda County, Lincoln County, Mineral County, and Nye County.

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is in Nevada. It comprises , Douglas County, Lyon County, Storey County, and Washoe County.

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consists of dry, mountainous, sparsely populated landscapes. Most of the towns are dotted along the Humboldt River, Interstate 80, and the railroad, all of which cut across this part of Nevada from west to east, running next to each other for much of the way.

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in Nevada is the region surrounding the Loneliest Road in America, including small settlements, mountain ranges and large plateaus in between.

Nevada

Latitude of center
39.5159° or 39° 30′ 57″ north
Longitude of center
-116.8537° or 116° 51′ 13″ west
Population
2,840,000
Elevation
7,415 feet (2,260 metres)
Abbreviation
“NV”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316971669
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5509151
Wiki­data ID
Q1227
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Nevada” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nevada”
  • Albanian: “Nevada”
  • Amharic: “ነቫዳ”
  • Arabic: “نيفادا”
  • Aragonese: “Nevada”
  • Armenian: “Նևադա”
  • Arpitan: “Nevada”
  • Asturian: “Nevada”
  • Aymara: “Nevada suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nevada”
  • Balinese: “Névada”
  • Basque: “Nevada”
  • Bavarian: “Nevada”
  • Belarusian: “Невада”
  • Belarusian: “Нэвада”
  • Bengali: “নেভাডা”
  • Bhojpuri: “नेवादा”
  • Bishnupriya: “নেভাডা”
  • Bislama: “Nevada”
  • Bosnian: “Nevada”
  • Breton: “Nevada”
  • Bulgarian: “Невада”
  • Burmese: “နီဗားဒါးပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Nevada”
  • Cebuano: “Nevada”
  • Central Bikol: “Nevada”
  • Central Kanuri: “Nevada”
  • Central Kurdish: “نێڤادا”
  • Chavacano: “Nevada”
  • Chechen: “Невада”
  • Cherokee: “ᏁᏩᏓ”
  • Cheyenne: “Nevada”
  • Chinese: “Nevada”
  • Chinese: “內華達州”
  • Chinese: “内华达州”
  • Chuvash: “Невада”
  • Cornish: “Nevada”
  • Corsican: “Nevada”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nevada”
  • Croatian: “Nevada”
  • Czech: “Nevada”
  • Czech: “State of Nevada”
  • Dagbani: “Nevada”
  • Danish: “Nevada”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nevada”
  • Dutch: “Nevada”
  • Dutch: “NV”
  • Eastern Mari: “Невада”
  • Eastern Mari: “Неваде”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيفادا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيڤادا”
  • Esperanto: “Nevado”
  • Esperanto: “NV”
  • Estonian: “Nevada”
  • Ewe: “Nevada”
  • Faroese: “Nevada”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nevada”
  • Finnish: “Nevada”
  • French: “Nevada”
  • Gagauz: “Nevada”
  • Galician: “Nevada”
  • Georgian: “ნევადა”
  • German: “Nevada”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌰”
  • Greek: “Νεβάδα”
  • Guarani: “Nevada”
  • Guarani: “Neváda”
  • Gujarati: “નેવાડા”
  • Haitian: “Nevada”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nevada”
  • Hausa: “Nevada”
  • Hawaiian: “Newaka”
  • Hebrew: “נבאדה”
  • Hebrew: “נבדה”
  • Hebrew: “נוואדה”
  • Hebrew: “נוודה”
  • Hindi: “नेवाडा”
  • Hungarian: “Nevada”
  • Icelandic: “Nevada”
  • Ido: “Nevada”
  • Igbo: “Náevadạ”
  • Iloko: “Nevada”
  • Inari Sami: “Nevada”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Nevada”
  • Indonesian: “Nevada”
  • Interlingua: “Nevada”
  • Interlingue: “Nevada”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓂᕚᑖ”
  • Inupiaq: “Nevada”
  • Inupiaq: “Niviata”
  • Irish: “Nevada”
  • Italian: “Nevada”
  • Japanese: “ネバダ州”
  • Javanese: “Nevada”
  • Kabiyè: “Nevadaa”
  • Kalmyk: “Невад”
  • Kannada: “ನೆವಾಡಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Невада”
  • Kazakh: “Невада”
  • Kirghiz: “Невада (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Невада”
  • Komering: “Nevada”
  • Korean: “네바다 주”
  • Korean: “네바다”
  • Korean: “네바다주”
  • Kurdish: “Nevada”
  • Ladin: “Nevada”
  • Ladino: “Nevada”
  • Lao: “ເນວາດາ”
  • Latin: “Nivata”
  • Latvian: “Nevada”
  • Latvian: “Nevadas štats”
  • Ligurian: “Nevadd-a”
  • Ligurian: “Nevadda”
  • Limburgan: “Nevada”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nevada”
  • Literary Chinese: “內華達州”
  • Lithuanian: “Nevada”
  • Lombard: “Nevada”
  • Low German: “Nevada”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nevada”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nevada”
  • Macedonian: “Невада”
  • Maithili: “नेवाडा”
  • Malagasy: “Nevada”
  • Malay: “Nevada”
  • Malayalam: “നെവാഡ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯦꯚꯥꯗꯥ”
  • Manx: “Nevada”
  • Maori: “Nevada”
  • Maori: “Newara”
  • Marathi: “नेव्हाडा”
  • Mazanderani: “نوادا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nevada”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nevada”
  • Minangkabau: “Nevada”
  • Mingrelian: “ნევადა”
  • Mongolian: “Невада”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيڤادا”
  • Nauru: “Nevada”
  • Navajo: “Naʼazhǫǫsh Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “निभाडा”
  • Nepali: “नेभाडा”
  • Nepali: “नेवाडा”
  • Newari: “नेभादा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nevada”
  • Northern Luri: “نوادا”
  • Northern Sami: “Nevada”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nev.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevada”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “NV”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nevada”
  • Norwegian: “Nevada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nevada”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܒܐܕܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nevada”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Snāwmuntland”
  • Ossetian: “Невадæ”
  • Pali: “नेभेदा”
  • Pampanga: “Nevada”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਵਾਡਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Nevada”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nevada”
  • Persian: “نوادا”
  • Picard: “Nevada”
  • Piemontese: “Nevada”
  • Polish: “Nevada”
  • Portuguese: “Nevada”
  • Pushto: “نوادا”
  • Pushto: “نېواډا”
  • Quechua: “Nevada suyu”
  • Romanian: “Nevada”
  • Romanian: “NV”
  • Romansh: “Nevada”
  • Russia Buriat: “Невада”
  • Russian: “Невада”
  • Samogitian: “Nevada”
  • Sanskrit: “नेवाडा”
  • Sardinian: “Nevada”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nevada”
  • Scots: “Nevada”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nevada”
  • Serbian: “Невада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nevada”
  • Sicilian: “Nevada”
  • Silesian: “Newada”
  • Sindhi: “نيواڊا”
  • Sinhala: “නෙවාඩා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nevada”
  • Slovak: “Nevada”
  • Slovenian: “Nevada”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوادا ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Nevada”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Plata”
  • Spanish: “Nev.”
  • Spanish: “Nevada (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Nevada”
  • Spanish: “NV”
  • Swahili: “Nevada”
  • Swedish: “Nevada”
  • Swiss German: “Nevada”
  • Tagalog: “Nevada”
  • Tajik: “Невада”
  • Talysh: “Nevada”
  • Tamil: “நெவாடா”
  • Tatar: “Невада”
  • Telugu: “నెవాడా”
  • Thai: “มลรัฐเนวาดา”
  • Thai: “รัฐเนวาดา”
  • Tibetan: “ནེ་བ་ད།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nevada”
  • Tumbuka: “Nevada”
  • Turkish: “Nev.”
  • Turkish: “Nevada eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Nevada, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Nevada”
  • Turkish: “NV”
  • Turkish: “State of Nevada”
  • Turkish: “US-NV”
  • Turkmen: “Newada”
  • Uighur: “Néwada shitati”
  • Uighur: “نېۋادا شىتاتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Невада”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nevada”
  • Urdu: “نیواڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Nevada”
  • Venetian: “Nevada”
  • Vietnamese: “Nevada”
  • Vietnamese: “NV”
  • Vlaams: “Nevada”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nevada”
  • Volapük: “Nevada”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nevada”
  • Welsh: “Nevada”
  • Western Frisian: “Nevada”
  • Western Mari: “Невада”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیواڈا”
  • Wu Chinese: “内华达州”
  • Xhosa: “INavada”
  • Yakut: “Невада”
  • Yiddish: “נעוואדא”
  • Yoruba: “Nevada”
  • Yue Chinese: “內華達州”
  • Zeeuws: “Nevada”
  • Zhuang: “Nevada”
  • Zulu: “Nevada”
  • “ma Niwata”
  • “Nevada”
  • “Nevàda”
  • “नेवादा”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nevada”. Photo: exothermic, CC BY 2.0.