For the larger geographic region including Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, see Greater Los

Angeles.

The Los Angeles metropolitan area, also known as Metropolitan Los Angeles or the Southland,[1] is the 18th largest metropolitan area in
the world and the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States.[2] It is the 3rd largest city by GDP in the world with a $1 trillon+
economy. It is entirely located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

Downtown Los Angeles, in the

center

The metropolitan area is defined by the Office of Management and Budget as the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA), consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties, a metropolitan statistical area used for statistical purposes by the
United States Census Bureau and other agencies.[3] Its land area is 4,850 sq. mi (12,562 km2) and its estimated 2016 population was
13,310,447 (a 3.75 percent increase over the official 2010 US Census population of 12,828,837).[4]

Los Angeles and Orange counties are the first and third most populous counties in California respectively, and Los Angeles, with 9,819,000
people in 2010, is the most populous county in the United States. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan area in
the western United States and the largest in area in the United States. The metro area has at its core the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
corridor, an urbanized area defined by the Census Bureau with a population 12,150,996 as of the 2010 Census.

The Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns, the Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA Combined
Statistical Area (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 18,788,800 in 2017.[5] This
includes the three additional counties of Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The total land area of the combined statistical area is 33,955
sq. mi (87,945 km2).