Use of which.

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It's a small village near las vegas. Which is 25 miles  away from las vegas.Thanks in advance.

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najuIt's a small village near las vegas. Which is 25 miles away from las vegas.

The use of two sentences here is not natural.
"Which" is typically used as a relative pronoun, and would be the subject of a relative clause, in this case.
"It's a small village which is 35 miles from Las Vegas." (The pronoun "which" refers back to "village.")

This could be two complete sentences:
"It's a small village." "It's 35 miles from Las Vegas."

We don't usually use "which" as the subject of a complete sentence.
In your example, it should be used to combine the two sentences into one.
(You probably shouldn't repeat "Las Vegas.")

It's a small village [,] which is near Las Vegas.

The comma is optional.

I remember "which" used as the subject of a sentence in an old Christmas Carol, *** Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen:
"The which his mother, Mary, did nothing take in scorn." Even as a child, I thought it was odd.

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