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Nye County, with an area of 18,159 square miles (47,031 square meters), is the third largest
county in the United States and covers more territory than Denmark.
The county seat is Tonopah, situated at the juncture of US 6 and US 95, The Silver Trails.
The largest city is Pahrump which had no telephone service until the 1960's and had a population
of 2,000 in 1980. Today, it is an exurb of Las Vegas with a population of about 40,000.
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