Los Angeles County is a county with 9,802,800 residents (as of 2001), the most populous county in California and in the entire United States. The county seat is the city of Los Angeles.
The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated city-like areas. The coastal portion of the county is heavily urbanized, though there is a large expanse of lesser populated desert inland in the Santa Clarita Valley, and especially in the Antelope Valley which encompasses the northeastern parts of the county and adjacent eastern Kern County, lying just north of Los Angeles County. In between the large desert portions of the county - which make up around 40 per cent of its land area - and the heavily urbanized central and southern portions sits the San Gabriel Mountains containing Angeles National Forest. All of southern Los Angeles County, up to about the center of the county, is heavily urbanized.
This county holds most of the principal cities encompassing the Greater Los Angeles Area, and is the most important of the five counties that make up the area. As of 2004, the county's population is larger than the populations of 43 states.
Web Sites and Links
• A Little Red Wagon
Descriptions and guides to art and design, California living, food, entertainment, technology and business services.
• Community Wire ServiceCalendars and links to local information for communities in the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley (Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena) and other parts of Los Angeles County.
• County of Los AngelesOfficial information directory of the services, commissions and operations of the area. History, city guides, demographics and census statistics are included.
• Enrichment WorksProduces curricular-based small plays featuring professional actors for school assembly programs and specialized instruction for both GATE and after-school enrichment programs.
• Los Angeles AlmanacAlmanac with information, statistics and interesting facts about the people, places and events of the county.
• Los Angeles: Past, Present and FutureUtilizing the extensive archival resources available at the University of Southern California, this opens a window into L.A.'s rich past and its exciting present and future.
• Main Street CentralLocal community business search, calendar, classifieds, classmates, elections, forums, jobs, lost and found, news. Bellflower, Covina, Diamond Bar, Glendora, Industry, La Puente, La Verne, Pomona, San Dimas, Walnut, West Covina.
