Carson City, capital of Nevada, U.S., in Eagle Valley near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, 30 miles (48 km) south of Reno and 14 miles (23 km) east of Lake Tahoe. Founded in 1858 on the site of Eagle Station (later Eagle Ranch), it took
Nevada, constituent state of the U.S. It borders Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and California to the west. Nevada is best known for being the home of Las Vegas, the gambling center of America, and its capital
Chapter © 2023 Notes 1. See Sheskin (1998). The fact that about 8–12 % of American Jews, despite rising intermarriage, continue to have one of 36 Distinctive Jewish Names (Berman, Caplan, Cohen, Epstein, Feldman, Freedman, Friedman, Goldberg, Goldman, Goldstein, Goodman, Greenberg, Gros...
This chapter examines the size, geographic distribution, and selected characteristics of the Jewish population of the US. Section 5.1 addresses the procedures employed to estimate the Jewish population of more than 900 local Jewish communities and parts thereof. Section 5.2 presents the major changes ...
Population (2020) 39,538,223; (2023 est.) 38,965,193. Land Relief California(more) The heartland of California is the Central Valley, which runs for 450 miles (725 km) through the centre of the state, forming a trough between the Coast Ranges to the west and the Sierra Nevada to ...