Los Angeles is the largest city in California as well as the second-largest urban area in the nation.
Los Angeles” means “The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels.” In 1848, Mexico ceded California to the United States, and Los Angeles was incorporated as a US city in 1850.
The city's extraordinary growth was contributed about by its equable climate, which pulled people and industry from all parts of the nation; the development of its citrus-fruit industry; the discovery of oil in the area during the early 1890s; the development of its man-made harbor—its port is one of the busiest in the United States—and the growth of the motion picture industry in the early 20th century. Today, Hollywood is a part of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is a main hub of embarking, cooking up, manufacture, and management, and is world-renowned in the entertainment and communications fields. To one side from the movie studios and other landmarks associated with the movie industry, points of concern include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the La Brea Tar Pits), Disneyland (Anaheim), and the Santa Anita and Hollywood tracks.
Los Angeles County is the nation's biggest manufacturing center, and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are second only to New York as the largest customs district in the United States. Major employers in the Los Angeles Five-County area are in the business and management sector. Growth in the key wholesale industries: apparel and textiles, furniture, jewelry, and toys. Other important sectors are health services and international trade and investment.
A beautiful place to live, experience and live fullest. The city about romance and vigor.