Bellevue (French for “beautiful view”; previously named Belleview) is a suburban city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. It is ration of the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, and had a population of 64,176 as of the 2020 Census, making it the third-largest city in Nebraska, behind Omaha and Lincoln, and the second largest city in the U.S. named “Bellevue,” behind Bellevue, Washington.

Originally decided by European Americans in the 1830s, Bellevue was incorporated in 1855 and is the oldest continuous town in Nebraska. It has been attributed by the Nebraska State Legislature as bodily the state’s second-oldest settlement; previously it served as the chair of management in Nebraska.

Bellevue is located at an height above sea level of 1159  ft (353 m). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 16.02 square miles (41.49 km), of which 15.85 square miles (41.05 km²) is home and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km) is water. It is bounded on the east by the Missouri River.

Bellevue was originally founded as a trading declare for the Missouri Fur Company by Joshua Pilcher, but there were financial problems, and, eventually, Lucien Fontanelle became the owner of the post, and the first enduring resident of Bellevue. Moses Merrill founded a mission, which was the first Christian mission in Nebraska, in Bellevue. Since it was the oldest city in the Nebraska Territory, the residents were optimistic that Bellevue would become the capital of it, and the extra territorial governor, Francis Burt, had already moved there, but sharply after, he died. The adjacent governor chosen Omaha as the capital instead. In 1921, the Offutt Air Force Base, housing the United States Strategic Command, was built south of Bellevue. The planes that dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bullets were built there.