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.

The United States dollar, denoted by USD or the symbol $, is the official currency used in the United States. Commonly referred to as the "American dollar," the currency is divided into 100 cents (symbol ˘)

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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.