The Story of
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is a city of about 3,878,704 people in Los Angeles County.
It has been its own community since 1781. The name comes from Queen of Heaven. It goes by the nickname "City of Angels". For green space, Los Angeles has 360 parks, led by Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park at roughly 316 acres. It has ocean beach: Cabrillo Beach, Royal Palms County Beach and Will Rogers State Beach. Open space and trails include Encino Reservoir and La Tuna Canyon Park.
Golfers have Los Angeles Country Club and Angeles National Golf Club. Local draws include Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Dodger Stadium and Drake Stadium. California State University, Northridge is here too. The map shows 3544 places to eat and drink, with Mexican, Coffee and Thai the most common. There are 691 public schools inside the boundary, run by Los Angeles Unified. On price, Los Angeles is the 58th highest-priced of 122 cities on my map at about $928K for the typical home, and values are up 73% in ten years.
Assembled from the U.S. Census Bureau, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the California Department of Education. Photo credits.
