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Los Angeles skyline and city at night with 101 Freeway in the foreground
Lena Kristin Müller
Los Angeles
Hollywood Sign
Willian Justen de Vasconcellos
Joshua Tree National Park
Elliott Engelmann
Joshua Tree National Park
The ruins of the old church at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano with the U.S. flag draped near old church bells and palm trees in the background
Tomás Martínez
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Images of Big Bear Lake in the foreground with homes and snowy mountains in the background
John Amarillas
Big Bear Lake
Photograph taken from Inspiration Point at Anacapa Island at Channel Islands National Park
Lisha Riabinina
Channel Islands National Park

About the District

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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California serves the seven counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. These are some of the largest counties in the United States by population and geographical area and have a total population of nearly 20 million people – the largest of any federal judicial district in the country. The district includes the city of Los Angeles, home to nearly 4 million people, the second most-populous city in the nation.

Our region hosts a wide variety of cultural and geographic diversity. In Los Angeles County, the languages spoken include English, Spanish, Korean, Tagalog, Armenian, Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, and Farsi.

The district is home to Native American reservations that cover approximately 129,449 acres of land. It also is home to a variety of ecosystems — from the forest and snow-capped mountains of San Bernardino County to the Pacific shores of our district’s coastline, to the Mojave and Colorado deserts of the Inland Empire, The Central District, home to three national parks – Channel Islands, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree – and four national forests – Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino – is rich in natural beauty.

The Central District is home to more than three dozen colleges and research universities, world-class museums and performing arts, approximately 125 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, more than 10 military bases and facilities, 11 airports, and two U.S. border checkpoints. The Long Beach-Los Angeles Ports Complex is the largest in the Western Hemisphere and is responsible for 40% of all inbound containers entering the United States. Major industries include entertainment, aerospace, trade, tourism, real estate, health care, and technology.

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