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Definition: Los Angeles from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

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city & port SW

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Calif. on the Pacific pop 3,694,820

Los An•ge•le•no \-॑an-jə-॑lē-(॑)nō also -॑aŋ-gə-॑lē-\ n

Los Angeles

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(lôs ăn'jӘlӘs, lŏs, ăn'jӘlēz´´), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. A port of entry on the Pacific coast, with a fine harbor at San Pedro Bay, it is the second largest U.S. city in population and one of the largest in area. Two mountain ranges, the Santa Monica and Verdugo, cut across the center of the city. Los Angeles is a shipping, industrial, communication, financial, fashion, and distribution center for the W United States and much of the Pacific Rim. It is also the motion picture, television, radio, and recording capital of the United States, if not the world, housing numerous studios. Once an agricultural distribution center, Los Angeles is a leading producer of clothing and textiles, aircraft, computers and software, paper, toys, glass, furniture, wire, biomedical products, electrical and electronic machinery, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and fabricated metal. Tourism, printing and publishing, food processing, and oil refining are also…
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Full text Article Los Angeles

From Philip's Encyclopedia
(Sp. 'City of Angels') City on the Pacific coast, SW California, USA; the second-largest US city (after New York City) and the nation's leading manufacturing base.Mexican settlers founded the city in 1781. At the conclusion of the Mexican War (1848), the USA acquired Los Angeles. The city grew with…
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Full text Article Los Angeles

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(lôs ăn'jӘlӘs, lŏs, ăn'jӘlēz´´), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. A port of entry on the Pacific coast, with a fine harbor at San Pedro Bay, it is the second largest U.S. city in population and one of the largest in area. Two mountain ranges, the Santa Monica…
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Full text Article Los Angeles

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
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City (pop., 2000: 3,694,820), southern California, U.S. The second largest city in the U.S., it is situated between the San Gabriel Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Bisected by the Santa Monica Mountains, which separate the neighbourhoods of Hollywood , Beverly Hills , and Pacific Palisades from the…
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Full text Article Los Angeles

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
City and port in southwestern California, USA; population (2000 est) 3,694,800; Los Angeles–Riverside–Orange County consolidated metropolitan area (also known as Greater Los Angeles) (1994 est) 15,302,000. In size of population it is the second-largest city and the second-largest metropolitan area…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
County in SW California. See table at california . City, its county seat, at its center ab. 15 mi. (25 km.) from the Pacific Ocean although extending to the coast in several places; pop. (2000c) 3,694,820, making it the largest city in the state and 2d largest in the U.S.; excellent harbor at San…
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From Environmental History and Global Change: A Dictionary of Environmental History
The second largest city in the USA (3.8 million population), memorably described as 60 suburbs in search of a city. Los Angeles has often been viewed as an urban disaster, epitomising all the problems of urban development including air pollution and urban sprawl within an environment which, despite…
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From Encyclopedia of North American Immigration
With a population of 13.2 million in 2014, the Los Angeles metropolitan area was second only to the New York metropolitan area in size. Almost half of the population was Hispanic and more than 11 percent Asian. Residents of Mexican ancestry comprised almost one third of the total population. Los…
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Full text Article East Los Angeles

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Large community in Los Angeles County, southwest California; population (2010) 126,500. It is locate to the east of the city of Los Angeles, on the opposite side of the Los Angeles River. It is one of the largest barrios in the USA, and has been overwhelmingly Hispanic since the 1910s; its original…
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Full text Article Los Angeles (So Cal)

From St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture
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Hip hop is a complex cultural phenomenon that was created by black and Latin American youths from marginalized inner-city communities. The four elements of hip hop—DJing, MCing, breakdancing (or breaking), and graffiti writing—first coalesced into a coherent movement in the South Bronx of New York…
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Full text Article Los Angeles Times

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). The newspaper prospered and became a power in conservative politics in California. It was long dominated…
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