Los Angeles, CA

State California
US Region - Pacific States
Los Angeles was founded in 1781
Los Angeles Square - 1,302 km2
Los Angeles population - over 3,850,000 people (second place in the USA)
The population density in Los Angeles is about 3,175 people / km2
Included in the metropolis "Big Los Angeles" (Los Angeles - Long Beach - Santa Ana) with a population of over 12 850 000 people (second place in the United States)
Los Angeles Time Zone - US Pacific Time Zone
Los Angeles Nicknames - "City of Angels", "ElEy" (LA), "Big Orange"


Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest city in the United States.

Los Angeles is located in Southern California on the Pacific coast, the length of the city from north to south is about seventy kilometers, and from west to east is nearly fifty. Most of the City of Angels is built in the lowland, known as the Los Angeles Basin, and separated from it by the Santa Monica Valley of San Fernando. For the “Big Orange” there is a very diverse relief, there are many hills and canyons, the lowest point of the city is located at sea level, and the highest (Mount Lükens) rises 1,554 meters high.

Located at the junction of tectonic plates (Pacific Ring of Fire) and very close to the San Andreas Fault, Los Angeles is very much at risk of earthquakes.

A river of the same name flows through Los Angeles (almost all the way in a riverbed enclosed in concrete), which sometimes dries out and serves as the main drainage channel for the city.

The climate in Los Angeles is subtropical Mediterranean, with slight seasonal temperature variations and pronounced rainy (from November to April) and dry seasons. Most of the precipitation falls in the form of rain, snow occurs only in the mountains (and very rarely in the valleys). The average January temperature in Los Angeles is from 10 ° C to 20 ° C, and in July from 19 ° C to 29 ° C.

In Los Angeles, there are more than 3,850,000 residents (among all US cities, only New York is the most), while the population density is about 3,175 people / km2. The metropolis of "Big Los Angeles" is formed by the cities of Long Beach, Anaheim, Santa Ana and others that have merged into a huge agglomeration, with about 12,850,000 people living there.

The racial makeup of Los Angeles:

White - 49.8%
Blacks (African Americans) - 9.6%
Asians - 11.3%
Native Americans (Indians or Eskimos of Alaska) - 0.7%
Natives of Hawaiian or other Pacific islands - 0.1%
Other races - 23.8%
Two or more races - 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) - 48.5%
Non-Hispanic whites - 28.7%


The largest ethnic group in the "City of Angels" are Mexicans - about 32% of the total population, and this figure is constantly growing (including largely due to illegal immigration). In the city there are many historically established national "enclaves", among which the most famous are Chinese Chinatown, Japanese Little Tokyo, Philippinetown, Vietnamese Little Saigon, Koreyataun, Little Armenia and others. Los Angeles also has one of the largest Russian-speaking American communities in the United States.

The most common language in LA is Spanish, it is native to more than 45% of city residents. English (native to about 40% of the population) takes only second place.

Ethnic heterogeneity of the population of Los Angeles and causes an extraordinary variety of religious beliefs of city residents. Traditionally, Latin American is the most popular Catholicism, the local Catholic diocese - the most numerous in the United States. The Jewish community of the metropolis "Big Orange" - the second largest in the country (after New York, more than half a million people). In addition, there are adherents of various currents of Protestantism, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Orthodoxy, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, and many other religions.


The metropolis of Los Angeles is one of the largest economic centers of the United States, ranking second in the country (after New York) in terms of gross domestic product. Here are the headquarters of a number of companies engaged in finance, insurance, oil production, construction, design, engineering, food production, etc. Los Angeles (as well as Southern California as a whole) is considered one of the centers of the aerospace industry in the United States, the port of "City of Angels" - one of the largest in the Western United States.

“Big Orange” is deservedly considered the “capital” of US cinema; there are several major film studios in the LA area, including Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Studios. In addition to cinema, in Los Angeles, other branches of the entertainment industry are also well developed, in particular, sound recording, television production and computer games development.