Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California. It is also a neighbourhood. About 85,000 people live there. It is the part of Los Angeles with the most skyscrapers, including the Wilshire Grand Center and the U.S. Bank Tower. The neighbourhood has an area of about 5.84 square miles (15.1 km²).

Neighborhood of Los Angeles
Clockwise, from top: Skyline from the southwest, the Arts District, City Hall, the Jewelry District and the Financial District in 2001
Freeway map of the Los Angeles area showing Downtown LA
Downtown map as delineated by the Los Angeles Times
Coordinates: 34.057°N 118.238°W / 34.057; -118.238
Country	United States of America
State	California
County	Los Angeles
City	Los Angeles
Downtown neighborhoods	List Arts District Broadway Theater and Commercial District Bunker Hill Civic Center Fashion District Financial District Flower District Gallery Row Historic Core Jewelry District Little Tokyo Old Bank District Skid Row South Park Toy District
Elevation	78 m (255 ft)

Downtown Los Angeles Media

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  1894 drawing of the Victorian-era business district, now the eastern half of the Civic Center district.

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  Looking northeast on Spring Street from First Street, 1880s. Asher Hamburger's Peoples Store at the center. Towers of the Baker Block are visible in the distance.

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  Angels Flight, November 2008.

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  The Wilshire Grand Center in DTLA is the tallest building in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River at (1,099 feet or 335 m). It is also the tallest building in the state of California.

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  Griffith Observatory overlooking DTLA.

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  Union Station.

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  The Last Bookstore, which was founded in 2005.

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  A view of the DTLA skyline.

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  Echo Park Lake with Downtown Los Angeles Skyline

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  DTLA with Dodger Stadium in the foreground.