Reno ( REE-noh) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about 22 miles (35 km) north from Lake Tahoe, known as “The Biggest Little City in the World”. Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the county seat and largest city of Washoe County and sits in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. The Reno metro area (along behind the next to city Sparks) occupies a valley colloquially known as the Truckee Meadows which because of large-scale investments from Greater Seattle and San Francisco Bay Area companies such as Amazon, Tesla, Panasonic, Microsoft, Apple, and Google has become a additional major technology middle in the United States.

The city is named after Civil War Union Major General Jesse L. Reno, who was killed in law during the American Civil War at the Battle of South Mountain, on Fox’s Gap.

Reno is share of the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area, the second-most populous metropolitan Place in Nevada after the Las Vegas Valley. Known as Greater Reno, it includes Washoe, Storey, Lyon Counties, the independent city and give access capital, Carson City, as skillfully as parts of Placer and Nevada Counties in California. The city proper had a population of 264,165 at the 2020 census.

Archaeological finds place the eastern attach for the primordial Martis people in the Reno area. As prematurely as the mid-1850s, a few pioneers settled in the Truckee Meadows, a relatively fertile valley through which the Truckee River made its showing off from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake. In supplement to subsistence farming, these prematurely residents could pick up event from travelers along the California Trail, which followed the Truckee westward, before branching off towards Donner Lake, where the formidable obstacle of the Sierra Nevada began.