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Located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, it is 18 miles (30 km) southwest of Downtown Los Angeles and close to the Pacific Ocean. LAX is a major international gateway to the United States, and also serves a connection point for passengers traveling internationally.
English: Location map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area — which encompasses Los Angeles County and Orange County in Southern California. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120.0 %. Geographic limits of the map:
George Bush Intercontinental Airport: Houston: IAH KIAH IAH 12,001 William P. Hobby Airport: Houston: HOU KHOU HOU 7,602 Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport: Angleton/Lake Jackson, Texas: LJN KLBX LBX 7,000 Scholes International Airport at Galveston: Galveston: GLS KGLS GLS 6,001 Ellington Airport: Houston: EFD KEFD EFD 9,001 West Houston Airport
[15] [14] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [17] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.
The primary Los Angeles airport is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The seventh busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States , LAX handled 28.8 million passengers, 2.3 million metric tons (2.5 million short tons; 2.3 million long tons) of cargo and 380,000 aircraft movements in 2020.
Partial map of Los Angeles County showing population density in 2000 by census tract. At the 2000 census, [41] there were 9,519,338 people, 3,133,774 households, and 2,137,233 families in the county. The population density was 2,344 inhabitants per square mile (905/km 2).
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Sepulveda Boulevard was formerly the longest street in the city and county of Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Times reporting in 2006 that it was around 42.8 miles (68.9 km) in length. [1] The City of El Segundo has since renamed their portion SR 1 Pacific Coast Highway.