Las Vegas is a city, but the odd thing about it is that while the Las Vegas strip (Las Vegas Blvd. between Sunset and Sahara) is considered Las Vegas and all the strip resorts have Las Vegas postal addresses; the Las Vegas strip is not in the city of Las Vegas. It s mostly in the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester. City of Las Vegas begins just north of where the strip ends, at Sahara Ave.Added: cities have some form of independent government... there is a mayor, there are city ordinances, and a police department. Towns don t have any form of government; they re under the umbrella of county, state and federal governments. So that s how you know Las Vegas is a city; they have Mayor Oscar Goodman and other governmental employees.
Las Vegas is a city. I have never been to Vegas but it seems to me that kind of a place would be a city. I have lived in a town before, and towns can be rather small, and certainly not bustling with activity, have large buildings, etc. To me Las Vegas is a city even before this question was brought up. There is something to consider here, a lot of people when they think of American cities, they think of the large cities like New York, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Houston, etc. But an area doesn t necessarilly have to be a large place into to be deemed as a city. There are several towns not large enough to be considered big cities, but too big to be considered quaint little hamlets. Annapolis, the state capitol even though it is dwarfed by both nearby Baltimore and Washington is actually considered a small city. And there are a few other spots in Maryland that are large enough to be considered as small cities, as I am sure this is the case with every state. So I don t know where Vegas ranks in the realm of large cities, but I do know that a city while it has to obviously take up more area than a small town, it doesn t have to be a large sprawling urban area to be considered a city of any stature.
It is a city...with over 1/2 million people. See site below. See 2nd site to read the divfference between a city and a town. see that Las Vegas is an incorporated city with a city government.
The state of nevada has it incorporated as a city on March 16, 1911. It is not a subjective thing. It is a legal definition. Obviously in 1911 the city had a very small population.------------Nowadays the city has a population of roughly 600K in a county with population 2 million. Most of the better known casinos are outside of the city limits. They built the Stratosphere in 1996 to be inside the city limits to see if they could take advantage of some of the money pouring into the unincorporated region of the city. The Stratosphere has had limited advantage.-----------The major casinos inside the city limits that had gaming revenue over $72 m last year are:(1) The Golden Nugget is the dominant casino along Fremont Street.(2) The Stratosphere is just north of the strip (the Sahara is outside the city limits(3) Palace Station casino within a mile of the strip(4) Arizona Charlies Decatur Avenue [in a very ethnic portion of the city](5) Santa Fe [in a northern suburb(6) Rampart Casino in Marriot resort in Summerlin(7) Suncoast Casino near the Marriot -----------------------------All the other casinos are outside of the city limits. Besides the strip the casinos like Red Rock and Texas Station and Boulder Station are just outside of the city limits.
8 out of 10 people, will tell you it s a City. Myself i see it as a town, seeing it s no where as large as some City s that i have lived in. While living in europe, to me it s a large town.
is there a difference? but I have always heard it as the city of vegas :)