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8 unusual facts about Greater Los Angeles


Glendale Unified School District

The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States in Greater Los Angeles.

Greater Los Angeles

The Los Angeles metropolitan area, an urban area in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles and Orange Counties

The Greater Los Angeles Area, a large metropolitan region in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties

History of the Central Americans in Los Angeles

By 1980 the Guatemalan and Salvadoran populations were the largest Central American populations in Greater Los Angeles.

As of 2009 up to 560,000 Central Americans lived in Greater Los Angeles.

History of the Korean Americans in Los Angeles

As of 2008 Greater Los Angeles has the largest Korean community in the United States with about 60,000 ethnic Koreans.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

San Gabriel Dam

The dam provides flood control, groundwater recharge flows and hydroelectricity for the heavily populated San Gabriel Valley in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.


Hiddush

The organization, a partnership between Israeli Jews and World Jewry, is headed by Jerusalem-based attorney and rabbi Uri Regev, former President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism as its president and CEO, and American businessman Stanley P. Gold, member of the Reform Wilshire Boulevard Temple and former Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Walnut Valley Unified School District

The Walnut Valley Unified School District is located in the eastern portion of Los Angeles County and is a part of the Greater Los Angeles Area of the U.S. state of California.


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Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area is the home of the US national headquarters of almost all Asian major car manufacturers except Nissan and Subaru (Nissan moved to Tennessee; Subaru first located in Philadelphia but moved to New Jersey); Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Hyundai and Kia have set up their national headquarters here.

History of the Korean Americans in Los Angeles

It, along with Greater New York City, is one of the two principal areas of Korean settlement, and the number of ethnic Koreans in Greater Los Angeles is 15% of the United States's Korean American population.

Jerry Trebotic

However, he does appear in all four of the videos that were shot for the album, and he will be rejoining the band for a performance at the Festival Periferias in Huesca, Spain on October 29, 2005 and will continue to play with the band for local shows in the greater Los Angeles area.

LA Podcasters

In March 2005 Lance Anderson (Verge of the Fringe and The Lance Anderson Podcast Experiment), Dan Klass (The Bitterest Pill), Tim Coyne (The Hollywood podcast), Grant Baciocco (The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd) and others began to meet at the Farmer's Market in order to establish a Podcasting Organization in the Greater Los Angeles community to foster the growth and development of the podcasting community.

Stewart Kwoh

He serves on the boards of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, KCET, and SCPR.