Los Angeles, California (1623)

Los Angeles – Лос-Анджелес

Santa Barbara ['sжntə bа:bərə] – Санта Барбара

San Diego [sжndi'egou] – Сан Диего

San Pedro Bay [sжn'pedrou bei] – залив Сан Педро

Balboa Park [bəl'boə pa:k] – Белбоа парк

Disneyland ['dizneilend] – Диснейленд

Los Angeles is a city in southern California, situated in the western part of the USA, washed by the Pacific Ocean. The city was founded by the Spanish in 1781 and was a part of Mexico for a long time. In 1846 Los Angeles was captured by the United States of America.

Today most of the 300-kilometer stretch of coastline from Santa Barbara to San Diego is now occupied by one long megalopolis, the home of about 15 million Californians. The entire complex is basically a creation of the 20^th century. Los Angeles is a city without a centre. It is really many cities that have grown together as they increased in size.

Los Angeles is the main economic centre of the United State in the West. It is a large centre of scientific investigations. The city has three Universities.

Southern California is known worldwide as the location of Hollywood, the centre of America's motion picture industry.

A narrow strip, 18 miles long, joins the main part of the city to its water front on the ocean, San Pedro Bay. The location of the city between the mountains and the sea is attractive. The site of the business district is level, and its plan regular, the suburbs are laid out on hills. Its climate and its varied scenery, especially the coast, early made southern California one of the country's centres of outdoor recreation. Today these natural advantages have been supplemented by some of the country's largest and best-developed recreation facilities. Balboa Park in San Diego with excellent zoo and Marineland are major attractions. Disneyland has become an American phenomenon and the main destination of countless tourists.

Los Angeles has beautiful shade trees and a wealth of semitropical vegetation. Towering eucalyptuses, graceful pepper trees, tropic palms, rubber trees, giant bananas and a wonderful growth of roses, orange trees, jasmine and other flowers beautify the city throughout the year. There are many parks within the city limits.

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