Los Angeles (US: /lɔːs ˈændʒələs/ (listen) lawss AN-jəl-əs;[a] Spanish: Los Ángeles [los ˈaŋxeles], lit. 'The Angels'), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to its east. It covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km2), and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million residents as of 2022.
Dunhua City, which belongs to Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, is the "west gate" of Yanbian Prefecture. Located in the eastern mountainous area of Jilin Province, the hinterland of Changbai Mountain, one of the node cities in the pilot area of Changjitu development and opening up, it is the largest county-level city in Jilin Province and an important transportation hub in Jilin Province. it connects Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, four districts and nine counties and cities. Dunhua is known as the "century-old county, the ancient capital of thousands of years". It is the capital of the Bohai Sea in the Tang Dynasty, Aodong City in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the birthplace of the Manchu royal family. In 1881, a county was established and named Dunhua; in 1958, the county under the jurisdiction of the province was assigned to Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, and the county was withdrawn to set up a city in 1985. Dunhua is an excellent tourist city, a national sanitary city, a national garden city, a national model city with double support, a model collective of national unity and progress, and the name of Chinese solid wood products.