United States--part: Nevada

How is the land laid out?

All of the area lies within the Western Cordillera, most of it within the Intermontane Plateaus. A tiny bit, near Lake Tahoe on the California border, is part of the Sierra Mountains.¹ The only summit over 4000 meters is Boundary Peak, in the White Mountains a mile from the California border. This is within the Basin and Range Province; the other part of the Intermontane Plateaus is the Colorado Plateaus, named after the river that cuts through them.

Who lives there?

This state is in the part of North America in which English-speakers and Christians are the majority.

In the state's south is Las Vegas, which had a metropolitan population of 2.4 million in 2012,² although only 600 thousand dwelt within the city limits.

The state's capital, Carson City, extends to the edge of Lake Tahoe.

Who was there before?

One Hokan language, Washo, was spoken in western Nevada. The rest of the state spoke Uto-Aztecan languages. Shoshone and Northern Paiute--in several states--still have a few thousand speakers each. Wovoka, a Paiute, founded the Ghost Dance Religion, which futilely resisted Anglo dominance and ended in its adherants' deaths at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

English-speaking Americans conquered the area piece by piece in the 19th century.

Around the area

northeast
east
southeast
west
northwest

Footnotes