Greater Los Angeles Area
The Greater Los Angeles Area is the urban area around Los Angeles, California. This informal term is synonymous with the term The Southland, a name mostly used by local news outlets.
The scope of the term has been variously used to include one to five Southern California counties. At its more compact, the term means Los Angeles County. At its broadest, the term referred to the entire Los Angeles--Riverside--Orange County, CA CMSA, which geographically encompassed large extents of sparsely populated mountain and desert. (This CMSA definition is no longer used after the Los Angeles metropolitan boundaries were realigned by the United States Office of Management and Budget in mid-1993).
Depending upon how one draws the boundaries, the Greater Los Angeles area is home to approximately 14 to 16 million people. It sprawls over 120 miles from Ventura in the west to San Bernardino in the east; and over 100 miles from San Clemente in the south to Lancaster in the north.
The Los Angeles--Riverside--Orange County, CA CMSA
Counties
Regions
Cities
For a complete list, please see List of towns in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Anchor Cities
- Anaheim
- Burbank (Airport: Bob Hope Airport)
- Glendale
- Long Beach (Airport: Long Beach Municipal Airport)
- Los Angeles (Major airport: Los Angeles International Airport)
- Ontario (Major airport: Ontario International Airport)
- Palmdale (Airport Palmdale Regional Airport)
- Riverside
- San Bernardino
- Santa Ana (Major Airport: John Wayne Airport)
- Ventura
Other suburbs with more than 100,000 inhabitants
- Corona
- Costa Mesa
- Downey
- East Los Angeles
- El Monte
- Fontana
- Fullerton
- Garden Grove
- Huntington Beach
- Inglewood
- Irvine
- Lancaster
- Moreno Valley
- Norwalk
- Orange
- Oxnard
- Pasadena
- Pomona
- Rancho Cucamonga
- Santa Clarita
- Simi Valley
- Thousand Oaks
- Torrance
- West Covina
See also United States metropolitan area
