Los Angeles

Los Angeles ( ;  , Spaingie for "The Angels") is the maist populous ceety in Californie an haes the seicont maist fowk in the Unitit States, wi 3.83 million fowk on a land area o 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2). It is the focal pynt o the lairger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined area, which contains nearly 17.8 million fowk. Los Angeles is the seat o Los Angeles Coonty, the maist populatit an ane o the coonties wi the maist cultures in the Unitit States. The ceety's indwallers are kent "Angelenos" ().

Los Angeles wis foondit on September 4, 1781 bi Spainyie govrenor Felipe de Neve. It acame a pairt o Mexico in 1821 follaein the Mexican War o Unthirldom. In 1848, at the end o the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles an the rest o Californie wure purchased as pairt o the Treaty o Guadalupe Hidalgo, therebi becomin pairt o the Unitit States. Los Angeles wis incorporatit as a municipality on Aprile 4, 1850, five month afore Californie achieved statehuid.

Aften kent bi its initials, LA, an nicknamed the Ceety o Angels, Los Angeles is a warld center o business, internaitional tred, entertainment, cultur, media, fashion, science, technology, an eddication. It is hame tae renouned institutions coverin a broad range o professional an cultural fields, an is ane o the maist substantial economic ingines athin the Unitit States. Los Angeles haes been ranked the fift maist pouerful an influential ceety in the warld, ahint anerlie New York City in the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area (CSA) haes a gross metropolitan product (GMP) o $831 billion (as o 2008), makin it the third lairgest economic centre in the warld, efter the Greater Tokyo Area an the New York metropolitan area.The 150 richest cities in the world by GDP in 2005, dated March 11, 2007. The list fails to include Taipei. Retrieved July 3, 2007.The United States Conference of Mayors and The National Association of Counties, 2007; Standard & Poor's DRI , June 2008.Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2009; GDP by Metropolitan Area , September 24, 2009 . As the hame base o Hollywood, it is kent as the "Entertainment Caipital o the Warld", leadin the warld in the creation o motion pictures, telly production, video gemmes, an recordit muisic. The importance o the entertainment business tae the ceety haes led mony celebrities tae cry Los Angeles an its surroondin suburbs hame. Los Angeles hostit the 1932 an 1984 Simmer Olympics. Los Angeles is an aa hame tae renoont varsities sic as the University of Southern California an the University of California, Los Angeles.

Los Angeles haes a Mediterranean climate, wi an average o 35 days wi measurable precipitation a year.

 Sister ceeties 

Los Angeles haes 25 sister ceeties,"Sister Cities of Los Angeles". Retrieved on December 18, 2009. leetit chronologically bi year jynt:
  Eilat, Israel (1959)
  Nagoya, Japan (1959)
  Salvador, Brazil (1962)
  Bordeaux, Fraunce (1964)
  Berlin, Germany (1967)
  Lusaka, Zambie (1968)
  Mexico Ceety, Mexico (1969)
  Auckland, New Zealand (1971)
  Busan, Republic o Korea (1971)
  Mumbai, Indie (1972)
  Tehran, Iran (1972)
  Taipei, Taiwan, Republic o Cheenae (1979)
  Guangzhou, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (1981)   Athens, Greece (1984)
  Saunt Petersburg, Roushie (1984)
  Vancouver, Canadae (1986)
  Giza, Egyp (1989)
  Jakarta, Indonesie (1990)
  Kaunas, Lithuanie (1991)
  Makati, Philippines (1992)
  Split, Croatie (1993)
  San Salvador, El Salvador (2005)
  Beirut, Lebanon (2006)
  Ischia, Italy (2006)
  Yerevan, Armenie (2007)

  Los Angeles an aa haes a cultural exchynge pairtnership wi Tel Aviv, Israel.
  Lunnon an Manchester, Unitit Kinrick, an  Łódź, Poland are "friendship ceeties".

 References 


Category:Ceeties in Los Angeles Coonty
Category:Coonty seats in Californie
Category:Host ceeties o the Simmer Olympic Gemmes
Category:Incorporatit ceeties an touns in Californie
Category:Los Angeles metropolitan area
Category:Populatit places established in 1781
Category:Port ceeties an touns o the Wast Coast o the Unitit States