Generally, Los Angeles is divided into areas or regions with its districts and neighborhoods. These regions or areas are Downtown Los Angeles, East and Northeast Los Angeles, Echo Park and Westlake, Greater Hollywood, Harbor Area, Los Feliz and Silver Lake, South Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Westside, and Wilshire. Read More..

Echo Park is the neighborhood of Los Angeles that is home to the annual Lotus Festival which was originally called the "Day of the Lotus Festival". It is the center of Los Angeles film industry before World War I, just until the end of the silent era before the studios moved to Hollywood. Read More..

San Fernando Valley, often referred to as "The Valley", is the largest region of the City of Los Angeles located in Southern California, United States. It is mainly suburban with wide range of socio-economic groups, which includes the portions of Crescenta Valley. Read More..

Numerous neighborhoods of Eastern Los Angeles shelter large Latino populations and other several neighborhoods have more mixed populations especially in northeastern Los Angeles. Read More..

San Pedro is the leading neighborhood of the harbor area which is the major seaport of the area. Other neighborhoods include Wilmington that lies adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, Harbor City and San Pedro, the Harbor City, which is a small subdivision in Los Angeles City with various race, class and social status, the Harbor Gateway, and the artificial island between Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor called Terminal Island. It is home to hundreds of Japanese prior to World War II. Read More..

Fairfax District has been the center of the City of Los Angeles' Jewish community. Many Jews after the World War II began to populate the area with most of them are Holocaust survivors. Read More..

The Mid-Wilshire is one of the districts of Los Angeles City that is also a part of the Wilshire region along with Mid-City West and Mid-City, which draws its name from Wilshire Boulevard. Its neighborhoods include Koreatown, Hancock Park, Arlington Heights, Wilshire Center, Harvard Heights, Miracle Mile, Wilshire Park, Brookside Park, Carthay Circle and Carthay Square, Fremont Place, Country Club Park, Larchmont, Mid-City, Longwood Highlands, Park Mile, Picfair Village, South Carthay, Wellington Square, Western Heights and Wilshire Vista. Read More..

Silver Lake is where the first large studio of Walt Disney was built during 1930's at the corner of Griffith Park Boulevard and Hyperion. This neighborhood was named after the man-made reservoir which was originally called "Ivanhoe", which was a novel written by Sir Walter Scott in 1819. It is better known for its residential areas and houses a large population of gays. Read More..

No. Van Nuys is not a city but rather one of the districts of San Fernando Valley region in Los Angeles. It is named after Isaac Van Nuys, a Dutch descent that founded the San Fernando Homestead Association in 1869. Van Nuys Boulevard, a main thoroughfare of the district is renowned for its car dealership. Read More..

It is located in University Park, a historic neighborhood in Los Angeles which refers to the University of Southern California. The University is home to Hebrew Union College and Mount St. Mary's College's Doheny campus. Read More..