Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles–Long Beach CSA
Metropolitan area
Los Angeles Long Beach Riverside
Coordinates: 35°03′25″N 118°15′00″W / 35.0569°N 118.2500°W / 35.0569; -118.2500
Country	United States of America
State	California
Principal city	Los Angeles
Other major cities	Long Beach Anaheim Riverside Santa Ana Irvine Santa Clarita San Bernardino Moreno Valley Fontana Oxnard
Area
• Metro	33,954 sq mi (87,940 km2)
Highest elevation	11,499 ft (3,505 m)
Lowest elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Population  (2020)
• Metropolitan area	18,644,680
• Density	549.1/sq mi (212.0/km2)
	Ranked 2nd in the US
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code(s)	213, 323 310, 424, 442, 562, 626, 657, 661, 714, 760, 805, 818, 909, 949, 951

The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is a term used for the group of metropolitan areas over five counties in the southern part of California. It includes Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County. It has been one of the fastest growing regions in the United States for decades. The growth started in Los Angeles County, then Orange County, and now in the Inland Empire. As of 2020, the population of the Greater Los Angeles area was 18.6 million. It is the second-largest statistical area in the country. Only the New York metropolitan area is larger.^[1]

The Greater Los Angeles area is centered on the county of Los Angeles, California. The term is defined to refer to the area from Ventura to the southern border of Orange County, and from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire. The Greater Los Angeles area includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County. The term "Greater Los Angeles" does not include San Diego and Imperial counties.

The United States Census Bureau has named the five county region as the Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA combined statistical area. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a total area of 4,850 square miles (12,561.442 km²). The wider combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km²). More than half of this is the thinly populated eastern areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

The following is a list of main cities in the Greater Los Angeles Area with their population in 2020.

• Oxnard (202,063)
• Thousand Oaks (126,966)
• Simi Valley (126,356)
• Ventura (110,763)
• Camarillo (70,741)

v t e Greater Los Angeles Area
Central city	Los Angeles
Counties	Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino Ventura
Cities >200k	Anaheim Fontana Glendale Huntington Beach Irvine Long Beach Moreno Valley Oxnard Riverside San Bernardino Santa Ana Santa Clarita
Cities and towns 100k−200k	Burbank Corona Costa Mesa Downey East Los Angeles El Monte Fullerton Garden Grove Inglewood Jurupa Valley Lancaster Murrieta Menifee Norwalk Ontario Orange Palmdale Pasadena Pomona Rancho Cucamonga Rialto Simi Valley Temecula Thousand Oaks Torrance Ventura Victorville West Covina
Area regions	Antelope Valley Central Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles Gateway Cities Greater Hollywood Inland Empire Palos Verdes San Bernardino Valley San Fernando Valley San Gabriel Valley
Landforms	Coachella Valley Colorado Desert Mojave Desert San Gabriel Mountains Santa Monica Mountains Santa Susana Mountains
Bodies of water	Los Angeles River Rio Hondo San Juan Creek Santa Ana River Santa Margarita River