Is Los Angeles a city or a country?

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gomanyes562

It's both. However, the area is not the same. The county of LA contains 88 cities, 87 small ones and the city of LA, which is the biggest.

With San Francisco, the city and county cover exactly the same area.

Peedlepup

A "county" and a "city" are both governmental jurisdictions that provide varying services and protections to its citizens. In the case of Southern California is is often common for both jurisdictions to have the same name.

So to answer your question "Los Angeles" is an autonomous, incorporated city that lies within the "County of Los Angeles" which contains the City of Los Angeles and roughly 88 other incorporated cities.

Obviousman

LA is both a city and a county. The city of Los Angeles takes up a significant part of LA County, but not all of it, or even the majority of it.

If you are on the phone with Directory Assistance, you would say "Los Angeles, California". There are so many area codes in the LA area now, it's all computerized, so simply saying LA/California will do just fine.

West of Encino

with so many illegal aliens here, i think country is correct/

Giggleygrl

City

MonkeysPaw

City

Paris Hilton

Angela, Los Angeles is both--- a county in which there is a city called Los Angeles...just like Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties....which are counties which contain cities of the same name..Kern county is the exception, but there is a city there called Kernville..

john_carlton04

both.
there's Los Angeles the city, located in Los Angeles County

idkijm

both. there is a los angeles county and there is a city of los angeles that are made of many districts

divnlurch

LA is both the name of the City and the County. Just like New York is both the name of a City and a State.

Shelley L

It's both, actually.

k3f3rn

City

Sa I

City, a city where I really want to move to one day...

kontrolfreak66

There is the City Of Los Angeles as well as a County Of Los Angeles.

GreasyTony

Both! There's a City of Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County.

mookfoof

a city :]

Drew2

Los Angeles is a city, It also has it's own County..
Similar to Riverside (located south/east of LA) has Riverside County. :)

LA is seperated into many districts as well.
So it's City>County>Districts

To answer your 2nd question, if you're calling someone in Los Angeles then you will say "Los Angeles" and tell them the area code if you know it. Usually you don't call people by county.

slickRick S