Nevada is made up of mostly desert and semiarid climate regions, daytime summer temperatures sometimes may rise as high as 125 °F (52 °C) and nighttime winter temperatures may reach as low as −50 °F (−46 °C).

Midland and Northern English dialects are so intermixed in Nevada that no clear regional division appears; an example of this is the scattered use of both Midland dived (instead of dove) as the past tense of dive and the Northern /krik/ for creek. In 2000, 1, 425, 748 Nevadans 76.9% of the resident population five years old or older'spoke only English at home, down from 86.8% in 1990.

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Nevada ranked 35th in population in the US (up from 39th in 1990) with an estimated total of 2, 173, 491 in 2002, an increase of 8.8% since 2000 (the greatest increase in the country for this time period). Between 1990 and 2000, Nevada's population grew from 1, 201, 833 to 1, 998, 257, an increase of 66.3%, the decade's largest increase by far among the 50 states (followed by 40% for Arizona).

The Consolidated Municipality of Carson City is the capital of the state of Nevada. The population was 52, 457 at the 2000 census.