A report on Southern California, Greater Los Angeles and Orange County, California
Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million as of 2021, encompassing five counties in southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast.
- Greater Los AngelesOrange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California.
- Orange County, CaliforniaIt includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most populous urban agglomeration in the United States.
- Southern CaliforniaThe region generally contains ten of California's 58 counties: Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties.
- Southern California8 related topics with Alpha
Santa Ana, California
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Santa Ana is a city and the county seat of Orange County, California.
Located in the Greater Los Angeles region of Southern California, the city's population was 310,227 at the 2020 Census, making Santa Ana the 13th-most populous city in California and the 4th densest large city in the United States (behind only New York City, San Francisco, and Boston).
Interstate 5 in California
1 linksMajor north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States, stretching from the Mexican border at the San Ysidro crossing to the Canadian border near Blaine, Washington.
Major north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States, stretching from the Mexican border at the San Ysidro crossing to the Canadian border near Blaine, Washington.
I-5 is known colloquially as "the 5" to Southern California residents and "5" to Northern California residents due to varieties in California English.
I-5 enters Orange County at the Cristianitos Road exit.
I-405 is a bypass route of I-5, running along the southern and western parts of Greater Los Angeles from Irvine north to near San Fernando.
San Diego
1 linksMajor city in the U.S. state of California on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and immediately adjacent to the Mexican border.
Major city in the U.S. state of California on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and immediately adjacent to the Mexican border.
Like much of Southern California, the majority of San Diego's current area was originally occupied on the west by coastal sage scrub and on the east by chaparral, plant communities made up mostly of drought-resistant shrubs.
The urban area of San Diego extends beyond the administrative city limits and had a total population of 2,956,746, making it the third-largest urban area in the state, after that of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Francisco metropolitan area.
The Imperial Valley, including El Centro, is in the Yuma, Arizona television market while neighboring Orange and Riverside counties are part of the Los Angeles market.
Los Angeles Times
1 linksDaily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881 and is now based in the adjacent suburb of El Segundo.
Daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881 and is now based in the adjacent suburb of El Segundo.
She speculated that the paper's revenue shortfall could be reversed by expanding coverage of economic justice topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to Southern California; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach.
The Times closed its San Fernando Valley printing plant in early 2006, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and to Orange County.
By the mid-1940s, the Times was the leading newspaper in terms of circulation in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Long Beach, California
1 linksCity in Los Angeles County, California.
City in Los Angeles County, California.
Incorporated in 1897, Long Beach lies in Southern California in the southern part of Los Angeles County.
Orange County Transportation Authority offers limited bus service to Orange County.
Several freeways run through Long Beach, connecting it with the greater Los Angeles and Orange County areas.
John Wayne Airport
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John Wayne Airport is a commercial and general aviation airport that serves Orange County, California, and the Greater Los Angeles area.
The area around John Wayne Airport has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) characteristic of coastal Southern California.
University of Southern California
1 linksPrivate research university in Los Angeles, California.
Private research university in Los Angeles, California.
USC is the largest private employer in the Los Angeles area, with an estimated annual impact of $8 billion on the state of California.
USC also operates an Orange County center in Irvine for business, pharmacy, social work, and education, and the Information Sciences Institute, with centers in Arlington, Virginia, and Marina del Rey.
The USC School of Architecture was established in 1916, the first in Southern California.
Huntington Beach, California
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Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, located 35 mi southeast of Downtown Los Angeles.
The population was 198,711 during the 2020 census, making it the fourth most populous city in Orange County, the most populous beach city in Orange County, and the seventh most populous city in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area.