Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area or Los Angeles metropolitan area is the metropolitan region around the Californian metropolis of Los Angeles. According to the New York Metropolitan Area is the second-largest by population in metropolitan area in the United States and one of the largest in the world. It is located entirely in Southern California.

The Los Angeles - Long Beach - Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area has a population of 12,872,808 with an area of ​​14,763 km ² (2008 ). The broader Los Angeles - Long Beach - Riverside combined statistical area even has 17,786,419 inhabitants (as of 2008) to 91,470 km ² surface, and ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west to the California border with Arizona and Nevada in the east. In the latter definition, however, the vast counties of Riverside and San Bernardino are also encompassed, for the most part consist in its eastern parts made of extremely sparsely populated deserts and semi-deserts.

In the metropolitan region of more urban areas are included ( agglomerations ). The largest of them is the Los Angeles - Long Beach - Santa Ana Urbanized Area with a population of 11,789,487 on 4320 km ² (as of 2000), the second largest Urban Area in the United States after New York - Newark.

Counties

The Los Angeles - Long Beach - Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area includes the counties Los Angeles ( 9,862,049 inhabitants) and Orange ( 3,010,759 inhabitants).

The Los Angeles - Long Beach - Riverside combined statistical area also contains the counties Riverside ( 2,100,516 inhabitants), San Bernardino ( 2,015,355 inhabitants) and Ventura ( 797 740 inhabitants).

Geography

While the population center is located on the Pacific coast, the hinterland is occupied mainly by mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert. The highest elevation is the San Gorgonio Mountain ( 3,506 m) in the San Bernardino Mountains. The lowest point is joined to three meters above sea level in Wilmington at the port of Los Angeles. The highest mountains of the San Bernardino Mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Santa Ana Mountains, Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Susana Mountains.

Traffic

Greater Los Angeles is crossed by several highways. Of national importance are:

  • I- 5, which runs in a north -south direction along the west coast of the Mexican to the Canadian border
  • I-10 from the Pacific Coast in Santa Monica to Jacksonville ( Florida) near the Atlantic coast
  • I-15 from San Diego on Las Vegas and Salt Lake City to the Canadian border
  • I-40 from Barstow about Oklahoma City and Memphis to Wilmington (North Carolina).

With the Los Angeles International Airport is one of the largest airports in the world in Greater Los Angeles. Other airports are:

Military bases

In the Mojave Desert, which occupies much of the San Bernardino County, there are several large sites of the U.S. military. These include the Fort Irwin Military Reservation of the Army, part of Edwards Air Force Base ( Air Force) and the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake ( Navy ), and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and in 1999 discontinued Marine Corps Air Station El Toro Marine Corps. San Clemente on the southern edge of the metropolitan area also borders the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, site of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and most of its subordinate organizations.

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