The
Los Angeles metropolitan area, also known as
Metropolitan Los Angeles,
Metro LA 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
nominal GDP in the world with a $1 trillion+ economy. It is entirely within
Southern California.
The metropolitan area is defined by the U.S.
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]