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Los Angeles (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 34 03 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.0500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 118 14 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -118.2333 decimal degrees |
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Note: State's largest city; expanded rapidly during late 19th and early 20th century due to cattle ranching, railroads and motion-picture industry; has suffered several earthquakes, droughts and air pollution; site of many museums, universities and wealthy communities. |
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| Los Angeles (preferred,C,V,LC,English-P,U,N)
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| Los Ángeles (C,V,Spanish-P,U)
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| L. A. (C,V)
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| City of Los Angeles (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula (C,V,English,T)
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| Los Angeles City (C,V,English,U)
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| Лос Анђелес (C,V,Serbo-Croatian,U)
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| Los Anxheles (C,V,Albanian,U)
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| Лос Андьелес (C,V,Russian,U)
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| Rosanzerusu-shi (C,V,Japanese (transliterated),U)
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| ロサンゼルス市 (C,V,Japanese,U)
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| Losandželosa (C,V,Latvian,U)
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| לוס אנג’לס (C,V,Hebrew ,U)
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| 로스앤젤레스 (C,V,Korean,U)
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| Λος ̕Αντζελες (C,V,Greek,U)
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| وس أنجلوس (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| Lo-shan-chi (C,V)
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| לוס אנג'לס (C,U,Hebrew )
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| El Pueblo (H,V,Spanish,U,N)
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| El Pueblo de la Reyna de Los Angeles (H,V,Spanish,U,N)
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| Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (H,V,Spanish,U,N)
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............ | name of original Spanish community on the site |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was site of settlements by the Gabrielino tribe; settled by Spanish expedition headed by Gaspar de Portolá in search of mission sites, on 2 August 1769; founded in 1781 |
| city (C) |
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after it was peacefully captured by U.S. in Mexican War of 1846 and officially incorporated on April 4, 1850 |
| county seat (C) |
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since 1850 |
| communications center (C) |
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| agricultural center (C) |
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| cultural center (C) |
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| entertainment center (C) |
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is major center for film, television & music industries |
| financial center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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produces aerospace equipment, petroleum, electronics, processed foods, glass, rubber & cement |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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| tourist center (C) |
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| transportation center (C) |
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first developed with electric car system in early 1900s & expanded with construction of freeways in 1940s |
| capital (H) |
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of the province of Alta California, on an intermittent basis, following Mexican independence from Spain in early 19th cen. |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP] |
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AAA: California/Nevada (1990) 46 |
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Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:530-531; I, 530-531 |
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City Names, Los Angeles Times (2007) |
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Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 23:307-312; XXIII, 307-312; 23:311; XXIII, 311 |
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GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) |
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Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.) |
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6051193 |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) |
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