Greater Pearl River Delta: Historical Evolution towards a Global City-Region

It has a total area of 4,850 square miles (12,561 km 2).

The Census Bureau designates the latter as the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim metropolitan statistical area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States, by population. There are four contiguous component metropolitan areas in Greater Los Angeles: the Golden Empire that makes up the city of Bakersfield within Kern County the Inland Empire, which can be broadly defined as Riverside and San Bernardino counties the Ventura/Oxnard metropolitan area (or Ventura County) and the Los Angeles metropolitan area (also known as Metropolitan Los Angeles or Metro LA) consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties only. It is the 3rd largest metropolitan area by nominal GDP in the world with an economy exceeding $1 trillion in output (behind Tokyo and New York City). In addition to being the nexus of the global entertainment industry (films, television, and recorded music), Greater Los Angeles is also an important center of international trade, education, media, business, tourism, technology, and sports. Of this, the contiguous urban area is 2,281 square miles (5,910 km 2), the remainder mostly consisting of mountain and desert areas. Census Bureau, the Los Angeles–Anaheim–Riverside combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km 2), making it the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area. Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States (after New York's), with a population of 18.5 million in 2021, encompassing six counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, Kern County in the North, and Orange County to the southeast.

Greater Pearl River Delta: Historical Evolution towards a Global City-Region