Currently the most populated county in the United States, having a population of 9,818,605 reported by the U.S. Census in 2010, Los Angeles County California by itself contains more people within it than 42 individual U.S. states. The county holds the second biggest city in the United States and the largest in California, this city is Los Angeles. This county additionally has a couple of islands just offshore, Santa Catalina and San Clemente. It is one of the most diversified counties in the country as over one quarter of all of California residents make their home there.
The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area is made up of most of the primary cities located within it' boundaries and the Greater Los Angeles Area is made up by a core of five counties; Los Angeles County being one of the original counties created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Because of the county's tremendous territory, portions of it were presented to the neighboring counties, San Bernardino in 1850, Kern in 1866, and Orange County in 1889.
Los Angeles County contains many recreational areas, the most visited being Griffith Park of Los Angeles. The county hosts the rose parade, county fair, la Brea tar pits, an arboretum, two race car tracks and two horse racing tracks, miles of seashores and many other places of interest. Many old western movies were filmed inside the mountain, canyon, and desert regions.
An observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains is available to everyone for watching the stars with its computer assisted telescope and many county residents make use of the Castaic Lake Recreation Area for going swimming, water skiing and relaxing and also experiencing and enjoying the starry nights and nature's surroundings on camping excursions in the eastern Antelope Valley. The state's flower is shown off in great amounts each spring throughout the rolling foothills of the California Poppy Reserve in western Antelope Valley.
There is also a vast array of recreational and cultural activities available to residents as well as vacationers offered by the private sector as well as the county. You'll find 65,528 acres of lakes, trails, gardens and parks along with the world's biggest public golf course system, 19 courses as well as 31 public swimming pools. The 75 mile mainland coastline offers 25 miles of County maintained beaches.
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