page_title: San Fernando Valley
section_title: Government and political representation
hierarchical_section_title: San Fernando Valley / Government and political representation
caption_attribution_description: The West Valley Regional Branch Library, a Los Angeles Public Library branch — in Reseda, a community of the western San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles.
context_page_description: The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it. Home to 1.77 million people, it is north of the larger, more populous Los Angeles Basin.
  Nearly two thirds of the valley's land area is part of the city of Los Angeles. The other incorporated cities in the valley are Glendale, Burbank, San Fernando, Hidden Hills, and Calabasas.
context_section_description: The San Fernando Valley contains five incorporated cities—Glendale, Burbank, San Fernando, Hidden Hills, and Calabasas—and part of a sixth, Los Angeles, which governs a majority of the valley. The unincorporated communities (Census-designated places) are governed by the County of Los Angeles.
caption: The West Valley Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, in Reseda
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