Greater Los Angeles Area

The Greater Los Angeles Area is the populated area around Los Angeles, California. It has been used in several ways:

Some use the term as a synonym for Los Angeles County.
It might be used to refer to the three county Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, California Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Others use it to mean the same thing as the five-county region of the Southland, although Southland is seldom used outside of local news outlets.

One problem with the latter two definitions is that only a small portion of the western end of Riverside and San Bernardino counties contains populated areas that could be considered Los Angeles suburbs.

Map of California highlingting the Southland

A map highlighting the Southland

Table of contents

1 Counties
2 Regions
3 Cities

3.1 Anchor Cities
3.2 Suburbs with more than 100,000 inhabitants
3.3 Suburbs with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants
3.4 Suburbs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants

Counties

Regions

Cities

Anchor Cities

Anaheim
Los Angeles (Major airport: Los Angeles International Airport)
Riverside

Suburbs with more than 100,000 inhabitants

Burbank (Airport: Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport)
Corona
Costa Mesa
Downey
East Los Angeles
El Monte
Fontana
Fullerton
Garden Grove
Glendale
Huntington Beach
Inglewood
Irvine
Lancaster
Long Beach (Airport: Long Beach Municipal Airport)
Moreno Valley
Norwalk
Ontario (Major airport: Ontario International Airport)
Orange
Oxnard
Palmdale
Pasadena
Pomona
Rancho Cucamonga
San Bernardino
Santa Ana (Major Airport: John Wayne Airport)
Santa Clarita
Simi Valley
Thousand Oaks
Torrance
Ventura
West Covina

Suburbs with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants

Suburbs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants

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California
CA Regions: Central Valley | Central Coast | Channel Islands | Diablo Range | Gold Country | Greater Los Angeles | Imperial Valley | Inland Empire | Mojave | Northern California | Owens Valley | Pomona Valley | Redwood Empire | San Fernando Valley | San Francisco Bay Area | The Peninsula | San Gabriel Valley | Santa Clara Valley | Santa Cruz Mountains | Shasta Cascade | Sierra Nevada | Silicon Valley | Southern California | Transverse Ranges | Wine Country
Largest Cities: Anaheim | Bakersfield | Chula Vista | Fremont | Fresno | Glendale | Huntington Beach | Long Beach | Los Angeles | Modesto | Oakland | Oxnard | Riverside | Sacremento | San Bernardino | San Diego | San Francisco | San Jose | Santa Ana | Stockton
CA Counties: Alameda | Alpine | Amador | Butte | Calaveras | Colusa | Contra Costa | Del Norte | El Dorado | Fresno | Glenn | Humboldt | Imperial | Inyo | Kern | Kings | Lake | Lassen | Los Angeles | Madera | Marin | Mariposa | Mendocino | Merced | Modoc | Mono | Monterey | Napa | Nevada | Orange | Placer | Plumas | Riverside | Sacramento | San Benito | San Bernardino | San Diego | San Francisco | San Joaquin | San Luis Obispo | San Mateo | Santa Barbara | Santa Clara | Santa Cruz | Shasta | Sierra | Siskiyou | Solano | Sonoma | Stanislaus | Sutter | Tehama | Trinity | Tulare | Tuolumne | Ventura | Yolo | Yuba |

California
CA Regions: Central Valley \| Central Coast \| Channel Islands \| Diablo Range \| Gold Country \| Greater Los Angeles \| Imperial Valley \| Inland Empire \| Mojave \| Northern California \| Owens Valley \| Pomona Valley \| Redwood Empire \| San Fernando Valley \| San Francisco Bay Area \| The Peninsula \| San Gabriel Valley \| Santa Clara Valley \| Santa Cruz Mountains \| Shasta Cascade \| Sierra Nevada \| Silicon Valley \| Southern California \| Transverse Ranges \| Wine Country
Largest Cities: Anaheim \| Bakersfield \| Chula Vista \| Fremont \| Fresno \| Glendale \| Huntington Beach \| Long Beach \| Los Angeles \| Modesto \| Oakland \| Oxnard \| Riverside \| Sacremento \| San Bernardino \| San Diego \| San Francisco \| San Jose \| Santa Ana \| Stockton
CA Counties: Alameda \| Alpine \| Amador \| Butte \| Calaveras \| Colusa \| Contra Costa \| Del Norte \| El Dorado \| Fresno \| Glenn \| Humboldt \| Imperial \| Inyo \| Kern \| Kings \| Lake \| Lassen \| Los Angeles \| Madera \| Marin \| Mariposa \| Mendocino \| Merced \| Modoc \| Mono \| Monterey \| Napa \| Nevada \| Orange \| Placer \| Plumas \| Riverside \| Sacramento \| San Benito \| San Bernardino \| San Diego \| San Francisco \| San Joaquin \| San Luis Obispo \| San Mateo \| Santa Barbara \| Santa Clara \| Santa Cruz \| Shasta \| Sierra \| Siskiyou \| Solano \| Sonoma \| Stanislaus \| Sutter \| Tehama \| Trinity \| Tulare \| Tuolumne \| Ventura \| Yolo \| Yuba \|