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The Greater Los Angeles Area is the urban area around Los Angeles, California. This informal term is synonymous with the term The
Southland, a name mostly used by local news outlets.
The scope of the term has been variously used to include one to five Southern California counties. At its more compact, the term means Los Angeles County. At its broadest, the term referred to the entire Los
Angeles--Riverside--Orange County, CA CMSA, which geographically encompassed large extents of sparsely populated mountain and
desert. (This CMSA definition is no longer used after the Los Angeles metropolitan boundaries were realigned by the United States Office
of Management and Budget in mid-1993).
Counties
Regions
Cities
For a complete list, please see List of towns in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Anchor Cities
Suburbs with more than 100,000 inhabitants
See also United States metropolitan
area
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