Las Vegas is a city in the states of Nevada and New Mexico, the more famous of the two being in Nevada. There is no city in California with the same name. Las Vegas is also a municipality in Santa Bárbara, Honduras.
The city in Nevada was named by Spanish explorers who witnessed the extensive meadows (vegas in Spanish) around the area, which became its namesake. Las Vegas literally translates to "the meadows."
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San Francisco
The city is named Las Vegas.
Cupertino is the name of a city in central California named after a saint. The origin of the name is Italian
No state is named after a Spanish city.
It means: The Meadows.Las (or Los) = TheVega = Meadow (s for plural)It was so named due to it's plentiful underground water supply and fertile ground; it was quite literally a huge fertile meadow surrounded by desert.
Las Vegas.
Well, there's Berkelium, which was named after the city of Berkeley, CA (indirectly... it was actually named after the University of California at Berkeley, which was itself named after the city). That's about as close as it gets.
Las Vegas is in Nevada, but it is not the capital. The capital of Nevada is Carson City, near Lake Tahoe. There are also other places, in the US and elsewhere, named Las Vegas. For example, there are places named Las Vegas in New Mexico, Honduras, and Uruguay.
Las Vegas has always been Las Vegas, the city was named by Mormon missionaries in the 1840's.
There is an Arkansas City in Califormia near Oakland, California.
The city is named after Washington Irving's book Tales of the Alhambra.