Los Angeles cultural definition

City in southern California, sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles.

• Second most populous city in the United States.
• A center of the entertainment industry; Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles.
• Los Angeles suffers from serious smog pollution created by industry and large numbers of automobiles.
• The scene of the Watts Riots in 1965 and of another serious riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.