page_title: Greater Los Angeles
section_title: Census statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Greater Los Angeles / Census statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of the Greater Los Angeles Area in Southern California. The light gray shading indicates urbanized areas with Greater Los Angeles as defined by urbanized areas outlined in red. The Metropolitan Statistical Area is shown in yellow. The Combined Statistical Area includes the MSA plus those counties that are partially shaded.
context_page_description: Greater Los Angeles, also called the Southland, is the second-largest urban region in the United States, encompassing five counties in southern California, extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County on the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast. It consists of three metropolitan areas in Southern California: the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire and the Ventura/Oxnard metropolitan area.
  Throughout the 20th century, it was one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States, although growth has slowed since 2000. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had a population of nearly 13 million residents. Meanwhile, the larger metropolitan region's population at the 2010 census was estimated to be over 17.8 million residents, and a 2015 estimate reported a population of about 18.7 million. Either definition makes it the second largest metropolitan region in the country, behind the New York metropolitan area, as well as one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world.
caption: Greater Los Angeles in yellow and peach; urbanized areas in gray; Los Angeles proper lined in blue; Los Angeles metropolitan area lined in red.
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