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Nevada - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | State in southwestern USA, one of the Rocky Mountain states, bordered to the east by Utah and Arizona, to the south and west by California, and to the north by Oregon and Idaho; area 284,448 sq km/109,826 sq mi; population (2000) 1,998,300; capital Carson City. |
 | | The principal rivers of Nevada are the Humboldt, Truckee, Carson, Walker, Owyhee, and Colorado. |
 | | State politicians were at the centre of the 1970 and 1980s Sagebrush Rebellion, aimed at forcing the federal government to release public lands to the state. |
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