# Inland Cities (Orange County)

Orange County's inland region is densely populated. Most of the cities here are suburban communities with light industry and commercial offices and services.

## Cities

* 33.578-117.7251 Aliso Viejo
* 33.824-117.9072 Anaheim - The most populous city in Orange County, home of the famous 33.809-117.9191 Disneyland theme park and two major sports teams: the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and the Los Angeles Angels baseball franchise.
* 33.844-117.7783 Anaheim Hills
* 33.912-117.8894 Brea
* 33.863-1185 Buena Park - Best known as the home of the popular Knott's Berry Farm amusement park.
* 33.658-117.9016 Costa Mesa - Home to the Orange County Fairgrounds, a large performing arts center, and the large South Coast Plaza shopping mall.
* 33.824-118.0397 Cypress
* 33.703-117.9618 Fountain Valley
* 33.873-117.9279 Fullerton - Home to Cal State Fullerton, the Fullerton Arboretum, and Downtown Fullerton.
* 33.774-117.94410 Garden Grove - Home to the Crystal Cathedral, a stunningly huge structure of glass used as the cathedral of the local Roman Catholic Diocese.
* 33.685-117.82511 Irvine - A somewhat gentrified community with a significant Asian-American heritage, this is one of youngest and largest cities in Orange County.
* 33.926-117.94512 La Habra
* 33.594-117.68913 Laguna Hills
* 33.527-117.71114 Laguna Niguel
* 33.647-117.68815 Lake Forest
* 33.803-118.05816 Los Alamitos
* 33.598-117.65817 Mission Viejo
* 33.787-117.85218 Orange - Among the oldest of Orange County's cities, Orange is home to a historic downtown district surrounding a plaza, large parks, and a major outdoor shopping mall.
* 33.866-117.86119 Placentia
* 33.501-117.66420 San Juan Capistrano - A small and charming historic town that's home to a beautiful Spanish mission.
* 33.748-117.86921 Santa Ana - The seat of Orange County, home to a number of museums and a small historic downtown.
* 33.807-117.99922 Stanton
* 33.744-117.82323 Tustin
* 33.751-117.98724 Westminster - A small city with a prominent Vietnamese-American population — arguably the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam — with many Vietnamese shops and restaurants.
* 33.889-117.82525 Yorba Linda

## Understand

This is a large conurbation of residential and commercial areas, the border between individual cities sometime a little subtle. There are however between the cities large differences in wealth as well as distinctive cultural and ethnic differences in some suburbs.

## Get in
### By plane

33.678-117.86371 John Wayne Airport (SNA) is the best and closest plane connection into the area and to avoid the traffic congestion from LAX. 33.8183-118.14472 Long Beach AIrport (LGB) is also worth considering if connections are available.

## Get around

Although the OCTA provide a good coverage of the area with buses this is a car metropolitan. People drive everywhere, it is rare to see people walking outside of the malls and a couple of cities that have retail streets.
The majority of the roads have a grid structure. Having the relative position of a few north-south and a few east-west roads in your head will be enough to get around the region without a map, although it takes a little time to remember exactly where the diagonally running Interstate 5 and Interstate 405 cross the main grid roads.

## Go next

* Beach Cities
* Gateway Cities