Los Angeles Area

Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second-largest in the United States of America. Often abbreviated as L.A., it is an alpha world city having an estimated 2006 population of 3.8 million and spanning over 469.1 square miles in Southern California. Additionally, the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan area is home to nearly 13 million people who hail from all over the globe and speak more than a hundred different languages.