What is the difference between Los Angeles and Hollywood? Is it the same thing?

Answer 1

Since Hollywood is not an incorporated city (i.e., doesn't have its own Mayor and governing body), it is considered Los Angeles as well being inside its borders.

As a community it is one unique location, among others within the city of Los Angeles.

Answer 2

Hollywood is a part of the City of Los Angeles.

Answer 3

Shepard, this, obviously, confuses a lot of people because this type question comes up frequently.
Hollywood was in fact it's own city from 1903 until 1910 when it was consolidated with the City of Los Angeles. Since then it has been part of the city of Los Angeles. There is a ward (subdivision) within the city that very generally approximates the old city of Hollywood boundaries.
Also peeps seem to confuse the City of Los Angeles with the County of Los Angeles, in which the city sits. The county is huge and the city is small part of it The county has 88 cities in it, plus massive county lands.
Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Los Angeles is made up of about 100-200 different cities. Get a map and take a look. Hollywood is just one city in Los Angeles.

Answer 5

Hollywood is a neighborhood of Los Angeles. Hollywood is not it's own incorporated city. You know how New York has 7 burroughs (Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx . . . ) LA has 11 neighborhoods.

Answer 6

hollywood is an area of Los Angeles

Answer 7

They make movies in Hollywood and sell pirate copies in Los Angeles.

Answer 8

The one thing you have to understand about Los Angeles is that it is a patch-quilt made up of many smaller cities and towns. Most of these neighborhoods existed as distinct communities with their own identities before being swallowed up by Los Angeles, and they continue to cling to those identities, despite now being officially part of the City of Los Angeles. Wilmington and San Pedro, out by the harbor, Brentwood (out by Beverly Hills), Westwood Village, Venice, Hollywood, Watts, most of the cities in The Valley... are all officially part of Los Angeles. But they are also still distinct communities in their own right. Hollywood, for instance, was founded as a town decades before L.A. got around to absorbing it. To know L.A., you have to get to know it neighborhood-by-neighborhood, since each one has its own regional flavor.

Answer 9

Hollywood is a part of Los Angeles, it is not its own city. West Hollywood is its own incorporated city though.

Answer 10

No its not. You have L.A. county which is vast like 500 square miles. Then you have L.A. city which is much smaller. Then you have Hollywood. Which is a small city within the city limits of L.A. city. Hollywood and the city of L.A. are both inside the county border of L.A. county.