Los Angeles
Also known as Pink City, The town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion, La La Land, Tinsel Town, City of Angels, City of Los Angeles, LA, California, LA
seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
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Los Angeles is the largest city in California and serves as the seat of Los Angeles County. It is a major urban center in the United States that plays a significant role in the state's economy, culture, and demographics.
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Research
292,850 papers- Raining in Los Angeles.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Vijayan TDOI: 10.1136/bmj.o113
- A Perspective from Los Angeles of COVID-19 effect and impact on cardiac surgery.ReviewJournal of cardiac surgery · 2021Worthington T, Khoynezhad ADOI: 10.1111/jocs.15042
- Unusual Dentists' Advertisements from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.Journal of the history of dentistry · 2023Swanson BZ Jr, Croll TPDOI: 10.58929/jhd.2023.071.03.211
- A 50-year history of the health impacts of Westernization on the lifestyle of Japanese Americans: A focus on the Hawaii-Los Angeles-Hiroshima Study.ReviewJournal of diabetes investigation · 2020Yoneda M, Kobuke KDOI: 10.1111/jdi.13278
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Los Angeles (LA) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3.87 million residents within the city limits as of 2025, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind New York City, and the largest city in the Western United States. The city has an ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18 million residents.
The majority of the city proper lies in the Los Angeles Basin 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 km), and is the county seat and most populated city of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million residents as of 2022. It is the third-most visited city in the U.S. (after New York City and Miami), with over 3.6 million visitors as of 2023.
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