Greater Los Angeles Area

The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is a term used for the group of metropolitan areas over five counties in the southern part of California. It includes Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County. It has been one of the fastest growing regions in the United States for decades. The growth started in Los Angeles County, then Orange County, and now in the Inland Empire. As of 2020, the population of the Greater Los Angeles area was 18.6 million. It is the second-largest statistical area in the country. Only the New York metropolitan area is larger. 

The Greater Los Angeles area is centered on the county of Los Angeles, California. The term is defined to refer to the area from Ventura to the southern border of Orange County, and from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire. The Greater Los Angeles area includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County. The term "Greater Los Angeles" does not include San Diego and Imperial counties. 

The United States Census Bureau has named the five county region as the Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA combined statistical area. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a total area of . The wider combined statistical area covers . More than half of this is the thinly populated eastern areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

 Main cities 
The following is a list of main cities in the Greater Los Angeles Area with their population in 2020.

 Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana MSA 
 Los Angeles (3,898,747)
 Long Beach (466,742)
 Anaheim (346,824)
 Santa Ana (310,227)
 Irvine (307,670)
 Santa Clarita (228,673)
 Huntington Beach (198,711)
 Glendale (196,543)
 Lancaster (173,516)
 Garden Grove (171,949)
 Palmdale (169,450)
 Pomona (151,713)
 Torrance (147,067)
 Fullerton (143,617)
 Orange (139,911)
 Pasadena (138,699) Downey (114,355)
 Costa Mesa (111,918)
 West Covina (109,501)
 El Monte (109,450)
 Inglewood (107,762)
 Burbank (107,337)
 Norwalk (102,773)
 Mission Viejo (93,653)
 Compton (95,740)
 Carson (95,558)
 Westminster (90,911)
 Santa Monica (93,076)
 South Gate (92,726)
 Hawthorne (88,083)
 Whittier (87,306)
 Lake Forest (85,858) Newport Beach (85,239)
 Buena Park (84,034)
 Alhambra (82,868)
 Lakewood (82,496)
 Tustin (80,276)
 Bellflower (79,190)
 Baldwin Park (72,176)
 Redondo Beach (71,576)
 Yorba Linda (68,336)
 Lynwood (67,265)
 Laguna Niguel (64,355)
 San Clemente (64,293)
 Montebello (62,640)
 Pico Rivera (62,088)
 Monterey Park (61,096)
 Gardena (61,027)

 Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario MSA 
 Riverside (314,998)
 San Bernardino (222,101)
 Moreno Valley (208,634)
 Fontana (208,393)
 Ontario (175,265)
 Rancho Cucamonga (174,453)
 Corona (157,136)
 Victorville (134,810) Murrieta (110,949)
 Temecula (110,003)
 Jurupa Valley (105,053)
 Rialto (104,026)
 Menifee (102,527)
 Hesperia (99,818)
 Chino (91,403)
 Hemet (89,833) Indio (89,137)
 Upland (79,040)
 Perris (78,700)
 Chino Hills (78,411)
 Apple Valley (75,791)
 Redlands (73,168)
 Lake Elsinore (70,265)
 Eastvale (69,757)

 Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura MSA 
 Oxnard (202,063)
 Thousand Oaks (126,966)
 Simi Valley  (126,356)
 Ventura (110,763)
 Camarillo (70,741)

References

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Category:Metropolitan areas of the United States