Los Angeles is close to the coast of San Pedro Bay and Santa Monica Bay on the east side of the vast Pacific Ocean, and backed by the vast San Gabriel Mountain, covering an area of more than 1, 200 square kilometers. The metropolitan area includes Los Angeles County, part of Orange County and Ventura County, and more than 80 towns such as Beverly Hills, Pasadena and Long Beach, with a total area of 65,438+00,567 square kilometers. The city is located in an open basin surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. Except for some hills, the ground is flat, with an average elevation of 84 meters, and the highest point, Elsie Peak, is 1549 meters. The year is sunny, dry and rainy, and the climate is mild and pleasant, with an average temperature of about 12 degrees, 10/3.7 degrees in October and 23.4 degrees in July. The annual precipitation is only 357mm, mainly winter rain.
1769 On August 2nd (the second day of Notre Dame Catholic Day), a Spanish expedition came here to find a place to open a church. The town is under construction in 178 1, and is called "the town of the virgin Mary", hereinafter referred to as "city Los Angeles". Los Angeles was originally an idyllic village of Indians, and became a Spanish colony in 178 1. 18 18 It's the first time for Americans to come. 182 1 belongs to Mexico. 1846 After the US-Mexico War, it was ceded to the United States and became American territory. 1848 the "gold rush" in the west attracted a large number of immigrants. California was founded in 1850, and became the third1th state in the United States in the same year. At that time, the population of Los Angeles was only 1600.
19 At the end of the 20th century, with the discovery of oil, Los Angeles began to rise and quickly developed into the largest city in the western United States. After World War II, with the rise of modern industry, the prosperity of commerce, finance and tourism, the surge of immigrants and the continuous expansion of urban areas, Los Angeles has become a megacity in the United States. Now Los Angeles has become the largest petrochemical, marine, aerospace and electronic industrial base in the United States. It is one of the major science and technology centers in the United States, with the largest number of scientists and engineers in the United States and the title of "City of Science and Technology", where the famous Silicon Valley is located. In recent years, the financial industry and commerce in Los Angeles have also developed rapidly. Hundreds of banks have set up offices in Los Angeles, including many famous international consortia, such as Lockheed, Northrop and Rockwell. Los Angeles has become a financial center after new york.
Universal Studios Avenue of Stars Street View. The 3.5-mile-long Avenue of Stars is a place for entertainment stars.
In addition to developed industry and finance, Los Angeles is also the cultural and entertainment center of the United States. Endless beaches and bright sunshine, the famous "movie kingdom" Hollywood, the fascinating Disneyland and the beautiful Beverly Hills make Los Angeles a world-famous "movie city" and "tourist city". The downtown area of Los Angeles is vast and scattered, and the whole city is built on 10,000 small houses in Qian Qian. Among the trees, rows of courtyard-style buildings with elegant colors, exquisite shapes and different styles are all over the flat hills. There are dozens of tall buildings in the city center. Freeways and city streets crisscross like cobwebs, extending in all directions. The road area of Los Angeles accounts for about 30% of the city's area. It is the most developed city in the United States and the city with the most cars in the United States.
Los Angeles is also very developed in culture and education. There are world-famous California Institute of Technology, UCLA, University of Southern California, Huntington Library and Getty Museum. The Los Angeles Public Library has the third largest collection in the United States. Los Angeles is also one of the few cities in the world that has hosted two Summer Olympics.
Los Angeles is the largest industrial center in the western United States, and its manufacturing output accounts for about12 of California, ranking third in the country. Los Angeles is also a modern deep-water harbor. There is a famous thermos bottle project in Long Beach nearby, which is an artificial island for oil exploitation. There is a unique large inclined shaft on the island.
A large number of immigrants have made Los Angeles a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural international city. Ethnic minorities account for about half of the city's population and there are many immigrant communities. Areas inhabited by various ethnic groups have formed their own "cities". Los Angeles is also one of the major gathering places for Chinese Americans, with about 400,000 Chinese. China City is a "Chinatown" with old and new. The new Chinatown was built in the middle of the 20th century, between the urban area of North Broadway and the mountainous area. 198165438+On February 8th, Los Angeles and Guangzhou became sister cities. In 200 1 year, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of sister cities between the two cities, Guangzhou presented a bronze "Yong Zhong" to Los Angeles as a symbol of the permanent friendship between the people of the two cities, which was placed in the Blue Line Railway Station of China City, which was completed in 2003.