Nevada

**State of Nevada**
	State of Nevada
Flag	Seal
	Elk-name(s): Silver State (official);; Sagebrush State; Battle Born State
	Motto(s): All For Our Country
Offeecial leid(s)	De jure: Nane; De facto: Inglis
Demonym	Nevadan
Caipital	Carson City
Lairgest ceety	Las Vegas
Lairgest metro aurie	Las Vegas metropolitan area
Aurie	Rankit 7t in the U.S.
- Total	110,622 sq mi; (286,367 km2)
- Width	322 miles (519 km)
- Length	492 miles (787 km)
- % watter
- Latitude	35° N tae 42° N
- Langitude	114° 2′ W tae 120° W
Population	Rankit 35t in the U.S.
- Total	2,723,322 (2011 est)
- Densitie	24.8/sq mi (9.57/km2); Rankit 42nt in the U.S.
- Median hoosehauld income	$56,361 (15th)
Elevation
- Heuchest point	Boundary Peak; 13,147 ft (4007.1 m)
- Mean	5,500 ft (1680 m)
- Lawest point	Colorado River at Californie border; 481 ft (147 m)
Admission tae Union	31 October 1864 (36t)
Govrenor	Brian Sandoval (R)
Lieutenant Govrenor	Brian Krolicki (R)
Legislatur	Nevada Legislatur
- Upper hoose	Senate
- Lawer hoose	Assembly
U.S. Senators	Harry Reid (D); Dean Heller (R)
U.S. Hoose delegation	1: Shelley Berkley (D); 2: Mark Amodei (R); 3: Joe Heck (R) (leet)
Time zones
- maist o state	Pacific: UTC-8/-7
- West Wendover	Muntain: UTC-7/-6
Abbreviations	NV Nev. US-NV
Wabsteid	nv.gov

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Nevada (ⁱ/nəˈvædə/ or /nəˈvɒdə/) is a state in the wastren, muntain wast, an southwestern regions o the Unitit States. Nevada is the 7t maist extensive, the 35t maist populous, an the 9t least densely populatit o the 50 Unitit States. Ower twa-thirds o Nevada's fowk live in ane single coonty, Clark Coonty, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan aurie,^[6] whaur the state's three lairgest incorporatit ceeties are located.^[7] Nevada's caipital is Carson City.

Nevada is lairgely desert an semiarid, wi hintle o it locatit athin the Great Basin. Auries sooth o the Great Basin are locatit athin the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe an the Sierra Nevada muntains lee on the wastren edge. Approximately 86% o the state's land is awned by the US govrenment unner various jurisdictions, baith civilian an militar.^[8]

References [edit]

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↑ "Boundary". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=HR2576. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Elevations and Distances in the United States. United States Geological Survey (2001). Retrieved on 24 October 2011. .
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Elevation adjusted to North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
↑ The distinction of highest point in Nevada goes to the summit of Boundary Peak, so named because it is very near the Nevada-California border, at the northern terminus of the White Mountains. However, Boundary Peak can be considered a subsidiary summit of Montgomery Peak, whose summit is in California, since the topographic prominence of Boundary Peak is only 253 feet (77 m), which falls under the often used 300-foot (91 m) cutoff for an independent peak. Also, Boundary Peak is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) away from its higher neighbor. Hence Boundary Peak can be described as not being wholly within Nevada. By contrast, the prominence of Wheeler Peak, 13,063 feet (3,982 m), is quite large and in fact it is the twelfth largest in the contiguous United States. Wheeler Peak is the highest point in a radius of more than 200 square miles (520 km²) and is entirely within the state of Nevada.
↑ Table 2. Annual Estimates of the Population of Combined Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009 (CBSA-EST2009-02) (CSV). 2009 Population Estimates. United States Census Bureau, Population Division (March 23, 2010). Retrieved on 19 Apryle 2010. .
↑ http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2009-04-32.csv
↑ Federal Land Acres in Nevada. US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 30 September 2006. . Retrieved on 7 Mey 2009. .