List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles

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This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past. It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas. The guiding precept is Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features)#Geographic regions, areas and places.

Contents

Regions

Regions
Crescenta Valley
Downtown
Eastside
Harbor Area
Greater Hollywood
Northeast LA
Northwest LA
San Fernando Valley
South LA
Westside
Central Los Angeles & Wilshire area

Current neighborhoods

A–E

F–L

M–S

T–Y

Historic Preservation Overlay Zones

Government districts

Previous neighborhoods

Other

See also

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