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Las Vegas: the Strip Las Vegas: welcome sign Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Suburban housing in Las Vegas Nevada: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada Bellagio Hotel and Casino Hoover Dam and Lake Mead Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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See the geographic expansion of the Las Vegas metropolitan area from 1984 to 2009 demonstrated through space images
Urban sprawl in metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., from 1984 to 2009.
Video: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon—NASA Earth Observatory/Landsat 5/USGS Global Visualization Viewer

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Las Vegas: the Strip
Casinos on the Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Las Vegas: welcome sign
The welcome sign of Las Vegas.
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Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
A replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
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Suburban housing in Las Vegas
The suburbs of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Nevada: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
The desert landscape of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, near Las Vegas.
Bob Wick/U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Nevada
Las Vegas lies at the bottom of the state of Nevada.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
The city lies geographically close to the bottom edge of Nevada.
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Bellagio Hotel and Casino
The hotel was renowned for its “dancing fountains.”
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Hoover Dam and Lake Mead
Both the dam and Lake Mead lie on the Nevada-Arizona border.
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area
The Recreation Area lies on the Arizona-Nevada border
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Las Vegas Strip
Aladdin (left foreground) and Bellagio (right background) hotels, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Las Vegas: The Venetian hotel
The Venetian in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas
Casinos on the Strip at night in Las Vegas, Nev.
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Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Boulevard, the home of the Las Vegas Strip, pictured here at night.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Housing development under construction near the Strip (background), Las Vegas, Nevada.
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urban sprawl
Mosaic of images taken by Landsat 5 of the western portion of Las Vegas in 1984 (top),...
Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon—NASA Earth Observatory/Landsat 5/USGS Global Visualization Viewer
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