Nickname: Silver State Population: 1,603,000 (38th) Area: 110,567 sq miles (7th) Birthplace: Andre Agassi Factoid: Las Vegas, NV is the #1 tourist destination in the world. Tourism: 800.638.2328 Road Conditions: 702.486.3116 A says: Nevada is mostly empty. It's where they want to set up nuclear waste dumps. Simultaneously it's got a city that is renowned and coveted all around the world, it's got a foot in the beautiful door of Tahoe, and it's got the grand expanse of Lake Mead, which is a wake boarder's paradise. Nevada is proof every place has something extraordinary to offer. (Think 'Hoover Dam'). B says: The state of extreme contrast. Thousands of miles of desolate untracked desert borders Las Vegas,the city of lights and greed that never sleeps. Epic Tahoe ski resorts in the state with many summer days over 100 degrees. You either feel like the last person on earth driving the desolate highways or just a rat in the maze of Reno.