Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles–Long Beach CSA
Metropolitan area
Los Angeles Long Beach Riverside
Coordinates: 35°03′25″N 118°15′00″W / 35.0569°N 118.2500°W / 35.0569; -118.2500
Country	United States of America
State	California
Principal city	Los Angeles
Other major cities	Long Beach Anaheim Riverside Santa Ana Irvine Santa Clarita San Bernardino Moreno Valley Fontana Oxnard
Area
• Metro	33,954 sq mi (87,940 km2)
Highest elevation	11,499 ft (3,505 m)
Lowest elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Population  (2020)
• Metropolitan area	18,644,680
• Density	549.1/sq mi (212.0/km2)
	Ranked 2nd in the US
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)	213, 323 310, 424, 442, 562, 626, 657, 661, 714, 760, 805, 818, 909, 949, 951

The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is a term used for the group of metropolitan areas over five counties in the southern part of California. It includes Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County. It has been one of the fastest growing regions in the United States for decades. The growth started in Los Angeles County, then Orange County, and now in the Inland Empire. As of 2020, the population of the Greater Los Angeles area was 18.6 million. It is the second-largest statistical area in the country. Only the New York metropolitan area is larger.^[1]

The Greater Los Angeles area is centered on the county of Los Angeles, California. The term is defined to refer to the area from Ventura to the southern border of Orange County, and from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire. The Greater Los Angeles area includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County. The term "Greater Los Angeles" does not include San Diego and Imperial counties.

The United States Census Bureau has named the five county region as the Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA combined statistical area. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a total area of 4,850 square miles (12,561.442 km²). The wider combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km²). More than half of this is the thinly populated eastern areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

The following is a list of main cities in the Greater Los Angeles Area with their population in 2020.

• Oxnard (202,063)
• Thousand Oaks (126,966)
• Simi Valley (126,356)
• Ventura (110,763)
• Camarillo (70,741)