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Los Angeles

United States

Watercolour of Los Angeles, United States. Framed by the Santa Monica Mountains and San Gabriel Mountains, centered around the iconic Griffith Observatory overlooking the Los Angeles Basin toward the downtown skyline, with Griffith Observatory and Los Angeles City Hall.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Griffith Observatory; Los Angeles City Hall; San Gabriel Mountain Range; Hollywood Sign; Mexican; Griffith Park; lush Southern California Mediterranean and chaparral flora
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the hillside toward Griffith Observatory with the downtown skyline and rolling mountains in the background, showing chaparral shrubs and stone paths in the foreground, the white observatory with its copper domes in the middle-ground, and the vast basin and San Gabriel Mountains fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick chaparral covering Mount Hollywood, Griffith Park live oaks, and fan palm crowns.
Guarded against
Not San Francisco, San Diego, or Phoenix
Population3,820,914Wikidata: 3,976,322
Coordinates34.05°N, 118.24°W
Elevation106 m
Area1,302 km²
Time zoneAmerica/Los_AngelesUTC−8
Solar noon11:53clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Los Angeles and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Saint-Philippe, Réunion — 1,528 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

San DiegoUS179 km
TijuanaMX207 km
MexicaliMX303 km
PhoenixUS574 km
Ciudad JuárezMX1,129 km
CalgaryCA1,920 km
San AntonioUS1,934 km
Fort WorthUS1,944 km

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