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Los Angeles. Entertainment Capital of the World; L.A. El Lay [60] The Angels (literal Spanish translation) Angeltown [61] The Big Orange [9] City of Angels [9] [62] – based partially on the literal translation of the city's original historical full name from the Spanish language-- "The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels". City of ...
Getty Images Los Angeles local language is heavily influenced by two things, the beach and Hollywood. The pronunciation of many of L.A.'s locations and street names, on the other hand, is heavily ...
From the Tongva term Tuyunga, meaning mountain range from tu'xuu = old woman tu'xuunga = place of the old woman [1] Van Nuys neighborhood Van Nuys Boulevard: Isaac Newton Van Nuys, businessman, banker and real estate developer [1] Vignes Street: Jean Louis Vignes, French settler in Los Angeles who planted European grapes Watts neighborhood
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.
The expression is thought to have originated with the Bloods, a gang that originated in Los Angeles, who wanted to avoid using "crazy" because it started with the letter "c," which they associated ...
Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...
Los Angeles, United States, widely nicknamed "City of Angels" ("the angels" is the literal translation in Spanish of "Los Ángeles") Puebla (city), Mexico, formerly known as Puebla de los Ángeles, and popularly known as Ciudad de los Ángeles or Angelópolis (City of the Angels) Angelópolis (Puebla), a commercial and residential area in the ...
Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry – inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States.