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Los Angeles

Los Angeles,[a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. With roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020,[7] Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California. Los Angeles has a Mediterranean climate, an ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a metropolitan area of 13.2 million people. Greater Los Angeles, which includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18 million residents.

For the county, see Los Angeles County, California. For other uses, see Los Angeles (disambiguation).

Los Angeles

United States

September 4, 1781[2]

May 23, 1835[3]

April 4, 1850[4]

501.55 sq mi (1,299.01 km2)

469.49 sq mi (1,215.97 km2)

32.06 sq mi (83.04 km2)

305 ft (93 m)

5,075 ft (1,576 m)

0 ft (0 m)

3,898,747

3,819,538

3rd in North America
2nd in the United States
1st in California

8,304.22/sq mi (3,206.29/km2)

12,237,376 (US: 2nd)

7,476.3/sq mi (2,886.6/km2)

13,200,998 (US: 2nd)

Angeleno, Angelino, Angeleño[10][11]

$1.227 trillion (2022)

$1.528 trillion (2022)

List
  • 90001–90084, 90086–90089, 90091, 90093–90097, 90099, 90101–90103, 90174, 90185, 90189, 90291–90293, 91040–91043, 91303–91308, 91311, 91316, 91324–91328, 91330, 91331, 91335, 91340, 91342–91349, 91352–91353, 91356–91357, 91364–91367, 91401–91499, 91504–91505, 91601–91609[15]

The majority of the city proper lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending partly through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to its east. It covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km2),[6] and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million residents as of 2022.[16] It is the fourth-most visited city in the U.S. with over 2.7 million visitors as of 2022.[17]


The area that became Los Angeles was originally inhabited by the indigenous Tongva people and later claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under Spanish governor Felipe de Neve, on the village of Yaanga.[18] It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and became part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood. The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city.[19] The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California.


Los Angeles has a diverse economy with a broad range of industries. Los Angeles is best known as the home of the Hollywood film industry, the world's largest by revenue; the city was an important site in the history of film. It also has one of the busiest container ports in the Americas.[20][21][22] In 2018, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had a gross metropolitan product of over $1.0 trillion,[23] making it the city with the third-largest GDP in the world, after New York and Tokyo. Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984, and will also host in 2028. Despite a business exodus from Downtown Los Angeles since the COVID-19 pandemic, the city's urban core is evolving as a cultural center with the world's largest showcase of architecture designed by Frank Gehry.[24] More recently, statewide droughts in California have strained both the city's and Los Angeles County's water security.[25][26]

the official tree of Los Angeles is the Coral Tree ()[89]

Erythrina caffra

the official flower is the Bird of Paradise ()[90]

Strelitzia reginae

the official plant is toyon ()[91]

Heteromeles arbutifolia

(: ONT, ICAO: KONT) Ontario International Airport, owned by the city of Ontario, CA; serves the Inland Empire.[340]

IATA

(: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) Hollywood Burbank Airport, jointly owned by the cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena. Formerly known as Bob Hope Airport and Burbank Airport, the closest airport to Downtown Los Angeles serves the San Fernando, San Gabriel, and Antelope Valleys.[341]

IATA

(: LGB, ICAO: KLGB) Long Beach Airport, serves the Long Beach/Harbor area.[342]

IATA

(: SNA, ICAO: KSNA) John Wayne Airport of Orange County.

IATA

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City of Melbourne, Australia

Australia

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Manchester

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Tel Aviv

Los Angeles has 25 sister cities,[349] listed chronologically by year joined:


In addition, Los Angeles has the following "friendship cities":

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities (U of Minnesota Press, 1999).  978-0-8166-3336-4. online

ISBN

Holli, Melvin G., and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980 (Greenwood Press, 1981) short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. ; see index at p. 409 for list.

online

(2009). Southern California: An Island on the Land (9th ed.). Peregrine Smith. ISBN 978-0-87905-007-8.

Carey McWilliams

(1992). Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-671-79210-7.

David Rieff

(1995). Los Angeles: A History of the Future. Greenplanners. ISBN 978-0-9622911-0-4.

Paul Glover

Leonard Pitt & Dale Pitt (2000). Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County. Berkeley: University of California Press.  978-0-520-20530-7.

ISBN

and David Ulin (2009). Jim Heimann (ed.). Los Angeles: Portrait of a City. Taschen America. ISBN 978-3-8365-0291-7.

Kevin Starr

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