Where in the United States is Los Angeles?

Los Angeles (Los Angeles), located in southern California on the west coast of the United States, is the second largest city in the United States after New York. With its swirling scenery, metropolitan style, prosperity and tranquility, , is a beautiful and dazzling coastal city on the west coast of the United States.

Los Angeles is bordered by the San Pedro Bay and Santa Monica Bay on the east side of the vast Pacific Ocean, with the vast San Gabriel Mountains as its backdrop, covering an area of ??more than 1,200 square kilometers. The large urban area includes Los Angeles County and parts of Orange and Ventura counties, as well as more than 80 large and small towns such as Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Long Beach, with a total area of ??10,567 square kilometers. The city is located in an open basin surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. Except for some hills, the ground is flat with an average altitude of 84 meters. The highest point, Elsie Peak, is 1,549 meters high. It is sunny all year round, dry with little rain, and has a mild and pleasant climate. The average temperature is about 12 degrees, with the average temperature in January being 13.7 degrees Celsius and July being 23.4 degrees Celsius. The annual precipitation is only 357 mm, mainly winter rain.

On August 2, 1769 (the second day of the Catholic Marian Day), the Spanish expedition came here to find a place to open a church. In 1781, a town was built and it was called "Our Lady of the Queen of Angels". "Lea's Town", later referred to as "City of Angels" (the Spanish transliteration is Los Angeles). Los Angeles was originally an Indian pastoral village and became a Spanish colony in 1781. Americans first arrived here in 1818. It belonged to Mexico in 1821. After the Mexican-American War in 1846, it was ceded to the United States and became a U.S. territory. In 1848, the "Gold Rush" in the West attracted a large number of immigrants. It was established as a city in 1850, the same year California became the 31st state of the United States. At that time, the population of Los Angeles was only 1,600.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the discovery of oil, Los Angeles began to rise and rapidly developed into the largest city in the western United States. After the Second World War, with the rise of modern industry, the prosperity of business, finance and tourism, the surge in immigration, and the continuous expansion of urban areas, Los Angeles became a megacity in the United States. Today, Los Angeles has become the largest base for the petrochemical, marine, aerospace industry and electronics industries in the United States. It is one of the major centers of science and technology in the United States. It has the largest number of scientists and engineering technicians in the United States. It enjoys the title of "Technology City" and the famous Silicon Valley is located here. In recent years, the financial industry and business in Los Angeles have also developed rapidly. Hundreds of banks have offices in Los Angeles, including many well-known international consortiums, such as Lockheed, Northrop, Rockwell, etc. Los Angeles has Became the financial center second only to New York.

In addition to its developed industrial and financial industries, Los Angeles is also the cultural and entertainment center of the United States. The endless beaches and bright sunshine, the famous "Movie Kingdom" Hollywood, the fascinating Disneyland, and the beautiful Beverly Hills... make Los Angeles a world-famous "Movie City" and "Tourist City". The urban area of ??Los Angeles is vast and scattered. The entire city is based on thousands of small houses for each family. Amidst the greenery, row upon row of courtyard-style buildings, with elegant colors, exquisite shapes and different styles, are scattered on the flat hills. There are more than a dozen high-rise buildings with dozens of floors in the city center. Highways and city streets criss-cross and are as dense as a spider web, extending in all directions. The road area of ??Los Angeles accounts for about 30% of the city's area. It is the city with the most developed highways in the United States and the city with the most cars in the United States.

The cultural and educational undertakings in Los Angeles are also very developed. Here are the world-famous California Institute of Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Huntington Library, Getty Museum, etc. The Los Angeles Public Library has the third largest collection of books in the United States. Los Angeles is also one of the few cities in the world to have hosted two Summer Olympics.

Los Angeles is the largest industrial center in the western United States. Its manufacturing output value accounts for about 1/2 of California's, ranking third in the country. Los Angeles is also a deep-water seaport with modern equipment. Nearby Long Beach has the famous Samos Project, which is an artificial island for oil extraction. The island has a large inclined shaft that is unique in the world.

A large number of immigrants have made Los Angeles a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural international city. Ethnic minorities account for about half of the city’s population and have many immigrant communities. Areas where various ethnic groups live together have formed their own The "city". Los Angeles is also one of the main gathering places for Chinese in the United States, with about 400,000 Chinese. Chinatown is a "Chinatown" with one new and one old. The new Chinatown was built in the mid-20th century and is located between the downtown area of ??North Broadway and the high mountain area. On December 8, 1981, Los Angeles and Guangzhou became sister cities. In 2001, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of sister cities between the two cities, the city of Guangzhou presented to the city of Los Angeles a bronze "Yong Bell" imitated from the tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty as a symbol of permanent friendship between the people of the two cities. It was placed in 2003 On the Chinatown Blue Line train station completed in 2011.