Bellevue (French for "beautiful view"; previously named Belleview[3]) is a suburban city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States.

It is part of the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, and had a population of 64,176 as of the 2020 census, making it the 3rd most populous city in Nebraska, behind Omaha and Lincoln, and the second largest city in the U.S. named "Bellevue," behind Bellevue, Washington.

Established by European Americans in the 1830s, Bellevue was incorporated in 1855 and is the oldest continuously-inhabited town in Nebraska.

[4] Bellevue was originally founded as a trading post 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 permanent resident of Bellevue.

[5] Since it was the oldest city in the Nebraska Territory, the residents were optimistic that Bellevue would become the capital of it, and the new territorial governor, Francis Burt, had already moved there, but shortly after, he died.

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 bombs were built there.

[6][7] The 2019 Midwestern U.S. floods destroyed about 200 homes from the swelling of the Missouri River.

The 2020 United States census[12] counted 64,176 people, 24,335 households, and 16,481 families in Bellevue.

There were 25,586 housing units at an average density of 1,190.6 per square mile (459.8/km2).

25.1% of households consisted of individuals and 8.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The Route 95 Bellevue Express runs weekdays only to downtown Omaha.