Greater Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA CSA
Megacity and combined statistical area
Los Angeles Long Beach Riverside Anaheim Santa Ana
Urban areas   Counties in the Los Angeles MSA   Counties in the Los Angeles CSA but not the MSA
Coordinates: 34°00′N 118°12′W / 34.0°N 118.2°W / 34.0; -118.2
Country	United States
State	California
Principal city	Los Angeles
Other major cities	See list Anaheim Burbank Carson Chino Chino Hills Compton Costa Mesa Corona Diamond Bar Fontana Fullerton Garden Grove Glendale Hesperia Huntington Beach Inglewood Irvine Laguna Beach Lancaster La Verne Long Beach Menifee Mission Viejo Moreno Valley Murrieta Newport Beach Norwalk Ontario Orange Oxnard Palmdale Pasadena Pomona Rancho Cucamonga Rialto Riverside San Dimas San Bernardino San Clemente Santa Ana Santa Clarita Santa Monica Simi Valley Thousand Oaks Temecula Torrance Tustin Ventura Victorville West Covina Westminster Whittier
Area
• Urban [1]	2,281.0 sq mi (5,907.8 km2)
• Metro	33,954 sq mi (87,940 km2)
Highest elevation	11,503 ft (3,507 m)
Lowest elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Population  (2023)[2]
• Megacity and combined statistical area	18,316,743
• Density	541.1/sq mi (208.9/km2)
	Ranked 2nd in the US
GDP [3][4][5]
• Megacity and combined statistical area	$1.618 trillion (2023)
Time zone	UTC−8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (PDT)
Area codes	213/323, 310/424, 562, 626, 661, 714/657, 760/442, 805/820, 818/747, 909/840, 949, 951

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Metropolitan statistical area
Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA
Coordinates: 34°03′N 118°15′W / 34.05°N 118.25°W / 34.05; -118.25
Country	United States
State(s)	California
Largest city	Los Angeles
Area
• Total	4,850.3 sq mi (12,562 km2)
Highest elevation	Mount San Antonio 10,064 ft (3,069 m)
Lowest elevation	Wilmington −9 ft (−3 m)
Population  (2023)[2]
• Total	12,799,100
• Rank	2nd in the U.S.
• Density	2,654/sq mi (1,025/km2)
GDP [3]
• Total	$1.295 trillion (2023)
Time zone	UTC–8 (Pacific)
• Summer (DST)	UTC–7 (PDT)

Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County at its center, and Orange County to the southeast. The Los Angeles–Anaheim–Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km²), making it the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area. The contiguous urban area is 2,281 square miles (5,910 km²),^[1] whereas the remainder mostly consists of mountain and desert areas. With an estimated population of over 18.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2023),^[2] it is the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, behind New York, as well as one of the largest megacities in the world.^[6]

In addition to being the nexus of the global entertainment industry, including films, television, and recorded music, Greater Los Angeles is also an important center of international trade, education, media, business, tourism, technology, and sports.^[7] It is the third-largest metropolitan area by nominal GDP in the world with an economy exceeding $1 trillion in output, behind New York City and Tokyo.

There are three contiguous component urban areas in Greater Los Angeles: the Inland Empire, which can be broadly defined as Riverside and San Bernardino counties; the Ventura/Oxnard metropolitan area (Ventura County); and the Los Angeles metropolitan area (also known as Metropolitan Los Angeles or Metro LA) consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties only. The Census Bureau designates the latter as the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim metropolitan statistical area (MSA), the fourth largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States, by population of 13 million as of the 2020 U.S. census. It has a total area of 4,850 square miles (12,561 km²). Although San Diego–Tijuana borders the Greater Los Angeles area at San Clemente and Temecula, it is not part of it as the two urban areas are not geographically contiguous due to the presence of Camp Pendleton. However, both form part of the Southern California Megalopolis which extends into Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.