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With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] It 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 (L.A.), officially the City of Los Angeles, is the largest city in California, in the United States. There are 3,847,400 people living in the city and over 18 million people in the L.A. region. The city has an area of 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi).
California portal. v. t. e. The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.
Los Angeles, city, seat of Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the U.S. Home of the American entertainment industry, the city is also known for its pleasant weather, urban sprawl, traffic, beaches, and ethnic and racial diversity.
Los Angeles [lɔs ˈændʒələs] [2] (aus spanisch Los Ángeles [losˈaŋxeles], deutsch ‚Die Engel‘), offiziell City of Los Angeles, [3] häufig L.A. abgekürzt, ist die größte Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien. Sie liegt am Pazifischen Ozean und am Los Angeles River.
Los Angeles, America’s second largest city and the West Coast’s biggest economic powerhouse, was originally settled by indigenous tribes, including the Chumash and Tongva hunter gatherers, by...
Los Angeles County is a county in California that is by far the largest county in the United States by population. [7] At the 2020 census, 10,014,009 people lived in the county. [ 4 ] Its population is larger than that of 41 individual U.S. states .
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County at its center, and Orange County to the southeast.
Los Angeles sits at the heart of a metropolitan area of over 18 million people that spreads across Los Angeles County, Orange County, Ventura County, and the Inland Empire region of San Bernardino County and Riverside County.
It lay more than 20 miles (30 km) inland, along the banks of an unruly river. As late as the 1870s, Los Angeles was isolated from the rest of the country by vast deserts, mountains, and stretches of foreboding frontier territory. Novelist Mary Austin aptly called it “an island on the land.”.