POPULATION: 10,172,951

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Hilda Solis
• District 2 – Holly Mitchell
• District 3 – Lindsey Horvath
• District 4 – Janice Hahn
• District 5 – Kathryn Barger

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Charter

LOS ANGELES. County seat, Los Angeles. Created February 18, 1850. The words los angeles literally mean “the angels” and are a contraction of the original name Pueblo del Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the Town of the River of Our Lady, Queen of the Angeles). In 1781, Governor Felipe de Neve issued orders for the establishment of the pueblo on El Rio Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles. The pueblo in time became known as the Ciudad de Los Angeles (City of the Angels), and it is from this contraction that the present name is derived.