Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the northwest of Nevada on the border with California, and it is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County. It lies in the Truckee River valley in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about 23 miles northeast of Lake Tahoe. The 2020 census counted 264,165 residents. It is the third most populous city in Nevada and the largest outside the Las Vegas Valley, and it calls itself The Biggest Little City in the World. The city is named for Union major general Jesse L. Reno, who was killed at the Battle of South Mountain in the American Civil War. Together with neighboring Sparks it occupies the Truckee Meadows, and the Reno and Sparks metropolitan area is the second largest in Nevada.