LOS ANGELES

 Los Angeles (US:/lɔːs ˈændʒələs/(About this soundlisten) lawss AN-jəl-əs;[a] Tongva: Tovaangar;Spanish: Los Ángeles; "The Angels"), authoritatively the City of Los Angeles and regularly condensed as L.A., is the biggest city in California. With a 2020 populace of 3,898,747, it is the second-biggest city in the United States, after New York City, and the third-biggest city in North America, after Mexico City and New York City. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean environment, ethnic and social variety, Hollywood media outlet, and its rambling metropolitan region 

Los Angeles lies in a bowl in Southern California, adjoining the Pacific Ocean, with mountains as high as 10,000 feet (3,000 m), and deserts. The city, which covers around 469 square miles (1,210 km2),[17] is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most crowded district in the United States. The Los Angeles metropolitan region (MSA) is home to a populace of 13.1 million, making it the second-biggest metropolitan region in the country after that of New York.[18] Greater Los Angeles incorporates metro Los Angeles just as the Inland Empire and Ventura County.[19] It is the second most crowded U.S. consolidated factual region, likewise after New York, with a 2015 gauge of 18.7 million people.[20] 

Home to the Chumash and Tongva, the region that became Los Angeles was guaranteed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The city was established on September 4, 1781, under Spanish lead representative Felipe de Neve, on the town of Yaanga.[21] It turned into a piece of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, toward the finish of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the remainder of California were bought as a component of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and hence turned out to be essential for the United States. Los Angeles was consolidated as a region on April 4, 1850, five months before California accomplished statehood. The disclosure of oil during the 1890s carried quick development to the city.[22] The city was additionally extended with the culmination of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which conveys water from Eastern California. 

Los Angeles has a different and powerful economy, and hosts organizations in a wide scope of expert and social fields. It additionally has the most active compartment port in the Americas.[23] In 2018, the Los Angeles metropolitan region had a gross metropolitan result of more than $1.0 trillion,[24] making it the city with the third-biggest GDP on the planet, after Tokyo and New York City. Los Angeles facilitated the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will have the 2028 Summer Olympics.