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Las Rozas de Madrid
Las Rozas de Madrid, municipality in the western metropolitan area of the Community of Madrid, ~99,579 inhabitants (2025), 19 km from Madrid; shopping tourism hub (Las Rozas Village), business/tech parks, and the COSMOS smart-city digital twin.
Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia Biosphere Reserve
Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de las Sierras de Béjar y Francia), a UNESCO MAB site since October 2006 in southeast Salamanca, Spain; 199,203.76 ha, 88 municipalities, altitudes 360-2,425 m, Mediterranean woodland with Iberian lynx.
Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura Biosphere Reserve
Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas), a UNESCO MaB reserve in Jaén, Andalusia, designated 1983; about 210,000 ha, 23 municipalities, source of the Guadalquivir and Segura rivers, over 2,200 plant species.
Las Tunas
Las Tunas is an eastern Cuban province created in 1976 from Oriente, capital Victoria de Las Tunas, area 6,592 sq km, farming-based economy, population 463,112 in 2025, known for sculptures and the Jornada Cucalambeana.
Las Tunas, Las Tunas Province
Las Tunas (Victoria de las Tunas) is the capital city and municipality of Las Tunas Province, eastern Cuba, a 1976-created province of 6,595.25 km² and eight municipalities with a sugar-based economy.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada: Mojave Desert city of about 680,000 founded as a 1905 railroad stop, global resort and gambling capital with the Strip in unincorporated Paradise, 41.7 million 2024 visitors, $13.6 billion county gaming revenue, and Colorado-River-dependent water supply.
Las Vegas (TV series)
Las Vegas (2003–2008) is an NBC drama created by Gary Scott Thompson about the surveillance team of the fictional Montecito casino, starring James Caan and Josh Duhamel; five seasons, 106 episodes, canceled on a cliffhanger.
Las Vegas Aces
Las Vegas Aces, WNBA team (formerly Utah Starzz, San Antonio Silver Stars/Stars), based in Las Vegas since 2018, owned by Mark Davis; three WNBA championships (2022, 2023, 2025) led by coach Becky Hammon and four-time MVP A'ja Wilson.
Las Vegas Casino (Kenya)
Las Vegas Casino (Kenya): land-based casino on Muthithi Road, Parklands, Westlands, Nairobi, opened February 2003, operated by Family Town (2002) Limited under casino licence PG 0001197; 38 slots, 10 tables, open noon to 4 am daily.
Las Vegas Grand Prix
Las Vegas Grand Prix: Formula One race on the 6.201 km Las Vegas Strip Circuit since 2023, night race, winners Verstappen (2023, 2025) and Russell (2024); successor to the 1981–1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix, contracted through 2037.
Las Vegas Lights FC
Las Vegas Lights FC, also known as Vegas Lights FC, is a professional soccer club in Las Vegas, Nevada, playing in the USL Championship since 2018.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), also called Metro, is the consolidated agency policing Las Vegas and unincorporated Clark County, Nevada, formed July 1, 1973 by merging the city police and county sheriff under Senate Bill 340, led by the elected Clark County Sheriff.
Las Vegas Monorail
The Las Vegas Monorail is an automated, driverless 3.9-mile elevated monorail on the Las Vegas Strip, linking the MGM Grand and SAHARA Las Vegas with seven stations.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS), opened 1996 in North Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 1.5-mile tri-oval NASCAR track owned by Speedway Motorsports, with 123,000 seats, a four-wide NHRA drag strip, dirt track, and road courses.
Las Vegas Raiders
Las Vegas Raiders, formerly Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Raiders, NFL AFC West team founded in the AFL in 1960; three Super Bowls (XI, XV, XVIII); based at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas since 2020.
Las Vegas Sands
Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS), founded 1989 by Sheldon Adelson, is an integrated resort developer operating Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and Sands China resorts in Macao; it sold its Las Vegas casinos for $6.25 billion in 2022 and reported $3.15 billion Q2 2026 net revenue.
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a 4.2-mile resort casino corridor on Las Vegas Boulevard South, mostly in unincorporated Clark County. Key facts: El Rancho Vegas opened 1941; 38.5 million 2025 visitors; $8.8 billion Strip gaming revenue.
Las Vegas Strip Circuit
Las Vegas Strip Circuit: 6.201 km, 17-turn temporary night street circuit hosting the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix since 2023; lap record 1:33.365 (Verstappen 2025); contract through 2037.
Las Vegas Valley
Las Vegas Valley: structural basin in Clark County, Nevada, also called the Las Vegas basin, holding up to 5,000 feet of valley-fill aquifer sediments; bounded by Sheep, McCullough, and other ranges; home to about 2 million people.
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a city in San Miguel County founded in 1835 as a Mexican land grant and a major Santa Fe Trail trading stop.
Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve
Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera de las Yungas), UNESCO MAB site designated 2002 in Jujuy and Salta, Argentina; 678,056 ha of subtropical mountain forests, five core areas, nearly 50% of Argentina's biodiversity.
Las1
Las1 is an essential eukaryotic endoribonuclease, encoded by the yeast LAS1 gene, whose human ortholog is LAS1L; it cleaves pre-rRNA to build the 60S ribosomal subunit.
Lasa
Lasa is the used name of Mikel Lasa Goikoetxea (born 1971), Spanish footballer and 1992 Olympic gold medalist with Real Madrid affiliation; also Emiliano Lasa, Uruguayan long jumper.
Lasagna
Lasagna (lasagne) is a baked Italian dish of layered wide pasta sheets with cheese, tomato sauce, and often meat or ragù and béchamel. Codified Bolognese version uses spinach egg pasta; name from Greek laganon or Latin lasanum.
Lasagna Cat
Lasagna Cat is a YouTube channel created by the comedy duo Fatal Farm that parodies Garfield via low-budget live-action strip reenactments, returning in 2017 after nine years.
LaSalle Asia Opportunity fund series
LaSalle Asia is the Asia Opportunity real estate fund series of LaSalle Investment Management, a Jones Lang LaSalle subsidiary, launched in 2001 and run from Singapore.
LaSalle nuclear power plant
The LaSalle nuclear power plant in Brookfield Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, is a two-unit boiling water reactor station generating up to 2,320 MW, operated by Constellation Energy.
LaSalle, Quebec
LaSalle is a borough of Montreal, Quebec, on the island's southwest along the Saint Lawrence River, incorporated as a town in 1912 and a borough since 2002; 90,975 residents on 16.3 km², home to the Lachine Rapids and the Fleming Mill. Distinct from the Town of LaSalle, Ontario.
LaSalle's invariance principle
LaSalle's invariance principle is a theorem in dynamical systems, due to J. P. LaSalle in the 1950s, giving asymptotic stability from a Lyapunov function with nonpositive derivative.
Lasca
Lasca (Laska, Laskers) is a 1911 checkers variant invented by World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker, inspired by Russian Bashni: captured pieces are stacked under the capturer as columns on a 7x7 board with 11 pieces per side.