Editing Greater Los Angeles (section)

====Subregions in Los Angeles County====
While there is not an official designation for the regions that comprise Greater Los Angeles, one authority, the ''Los Angeles Times'', divides the area into the following regions:<ref>{{cite news |title=Neighborhoods |url=http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805060700/http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ |archive-date=August 5, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Angeles National Forest|Angeles Forest]]
* [[Antelope Valley]]
* Central L.A. ([[Downtown Los Angeles]], [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], [[Mid-Wilshire]], etc.)
* [[East Los Angeles (region)|Eastside]]
* [[Gateway Cities]]/Harbor Area
* Northeast L.A. ([[Highland Park, Los Angeles|Highland Park]], [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles|Eagle Rock]], etc.)
* Northwest L.A. County (including the [[Santa Clarita Valley]])
* [[Pomona Valley]] (partially in San Bernardino County)
* [[San Fernando Valley]]
* [[San Gabriel Valley]]
* [[Santa Clarita Valley]]
* [[Santa Monica Mountains]] ([[Malibu, California|Malibu]], [[Topanga, California|Topanga]], etc.)
* [[South Bay, Los Angeles|South Bay]] (incl. [[Palos Verdes Peninsula]], [[Beach Cities]])
* [[South Los Angeles]]
* Southeast Los Angeles County (including [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]] and [[Whittier, California|Whittier]], see [[Gateway Cities]])
* The Verdugos (including [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], [[Pasadena]] and the [[Crescenta Valley]])
* [[Westside (Los Angeles County)|Westside]]

Some of the above areas can be defined as being bounded by natural features such as mountains or the ocean; others are marked by city boundaries, freeways, or other constructed landmarks. For example, [[Downtown Los Angeles]] is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river: the [[Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)|Harbor Freeway (SR 110)]] to the west, the [[Santa Ana Freeway]] ([[U.S. Route 101 in California|US 101]]) to the north, the [[Los Angeles River]] to the east, and the [[Santa Monica Freeway]] ([[Interstate 10 in California|I-10]]) to the south.<ref name=LAT080807>Sharon Bernstein and David Pierson, "[http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-downtown8aug08,0,5462749,full.story L.A. moves toward more N.Y-style downtown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007142223/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-downtown8aug08,0,5462749,full.story |date=October 7, 2008 }}", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 8, 2007.</ref> Meanwhile, the [[San Fernando Valley]] ("The Valley") is defined as the basin consisting of the part of Los Angeles and its suburbs that lie north-northwest of downtown and is ringed by mountains.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=San Fernando Valley|encyclopedia=Britannica Online Encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/521119/San-Fernando-Valley|access-date=August 31, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602224649/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/521119/San-Fernando-Valley|archive-date=June 2, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>