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Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.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 County is one of the original counties of California, created at the time of statehood in 1850. [8] The county originally included parts of what are now Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, Tulare, Ventura, and Orange counties. In 1851 and 1852, Los Angeles County stretched from the coast to the state line of Nevada. [9]
Los Angeles-class submarine, a boat class; USS Los Angeles (ID-1470), a tanker in commission from 1917 to 1919; USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), an airship in commission from 1924 to 1932; USS Los Angeles (CA-135), a heavy cruiser in commission from 1945 to 1963; USS Los Angeles (SSN-688), a submarine in commission from 1976 to 2010
The Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad was the first railroad in Los Angeles, photo ca.1880. This put them in conflict with Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Company and one of California's "Big Four" investors in the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific.
La Cañada Flintridge: December 8, 1976: 20,573 La Habra Heights: December 4, 1978: 5,682 ... Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County "Census 2010: Table ...
The U.S. Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns, the Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 18,316,743 in 2023. [8] The total land area of the CSA is 33,955 sq. mi (87,945 km 2).
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Downtown Los Angeles is one of two neighborhoods in Los Angeles ranked as a "walker's paradise" (with walk scores 90 or above) by Walkscore. The other is Mid-City West, which encompasses the area of the city immediately south of West Hollywood and east of Beverly Hills. [21] Much of Los Angeles remains pedestrian unfriendly.