Las Vegas is a suburb.
Las Vegas -LRB- -LSB- ls_ves -RSB- , Spanish for `` The Meadows '' -RRB- , officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas , is the 28th-most populated city in the United States , the most populated city in the state of Nevada , and the county seat of Clark County .	City	City	County	List of counties in Nevada	Clark	Clark County, Nevada	Spanish	Spanish language	28th-most populated city	List of United States cities by population	United States	United States	state	U.S. state	Nevada	Nevada	county seat	county seat	Clark County	Clark County, Nevada
A suburb is a residential area or a mixed use area , either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city .	residential area	residential area	commuting	commuting
