Los Angeles
The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under Spanish governor Felipe de Neve, on the village of Yaanga. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. It is the third-largest city by GDP in the world, after the Tokyo and New York City metropolitan areas.
About Los Angeles in brief
Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second most populous city in the United States. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under Spanish governor Felipe de Neve, on the village of Yaanga. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to 13. 1 million people, making it the second-largest metropolitan area in the nation after New York. It is the third-largest city by GDP in the world, after the Tokyo and New York City metropolitan areas. It has a diverse economy and hosts businesses in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. It also has the busiest container port in the Americas. The area that became Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The present-day city has the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. and is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populous county in theUnited States. It lies in a basin in Southern California, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, with mountains as high as 10,000 feet, and deserts.
Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolis. The city, which covers about 469 square miles, is the home to the oldest pueblo, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, ‘The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels’ It is also home to one of the world’s busiest container ports, the Los Angeles International Container Terminal, which is one of America’s busiest ports in the history of the global shipping industry. It was founded by the Tongva and Chumash tribes in 1769, and later became a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820, the population had increased to about 650 residents. It had about one-quarter of the country’s oil reserves at the time of the discovery of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1885. In 1923, California’s oil discoveries helped the city become the largest oil producer in the country, accounting for about one quarter of the nation’s oil production. In the 1930s, the city became the largest producer of natural gas in the US, with one-fourth of its oil exports coming from the state of California. In 1940, the state’s population was about 1.3 million, and in the 1950s, it had about 2.2 million people. The current population of the city is about 4.7 million, with an estimated population of nearly 4 million people in the metro area.
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