The City of Los Angeles

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THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
The City of Los Angeles is the county seat of Los Angeles County, California, the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States.

Initially founded in September 4, 1781, as part of Spanish-controlled Mexico, the settlement was christened ''El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del R o de Porcincula'' ("the town of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion River"). Los Angeles was incorporated as a city in the U.S. state of California on April 4, 1850.

Within Los Angeles city limits is a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census. A July 1, 2002, Census estimate estimated the city's population at 3,798,981.

Informal reference to the city often includes much of the Los Angeles metropolitan area (euphemistically termed the "Southland") consists of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties, and is home to over sixteen million people of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds. The Greater Los Angeles area is sometimes inaccurately referred to as Southern California. Geographically the latter term more properly includes
Greater Los Angeles and Imperial, Kern, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The history of the area includes earthquakes, forest fires, riots, mudslides, movie stars, oil rigs, aerospace pioneers, surfers, politicians and palm trees.

During World War II, Los Angeles grew as a center for production of aircraft, war supplies and munitions. Thousands of African Americans and white Southerners migrated to the area to fill factory jobs.

By 1950 Los Angeles was an industrial and financial giant created by war production and migration. Los Angeles assembled more cars than any city other than Detroit, made more tires than any city but Akron, made more furniture than Grand Rapids, and stitched more clothes than any city except New York. In addition, it was the national capital for the production of motion pictures, radio programs and, within a few years, television shows. Construction boomed as tract houses were built in ever expanding suburban communities financed by the largess of the Federal Housing Administration.

Los Angeles continued to spread out, particularly with the development of the San Fernando Valley and the building of the freeways launched in the 1940s. When the local street car system went out of business Los Angeles became a city built around the automobile, with all of the social, health and political problems that this dependence produces.

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