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.
Heshan, a county-level city in charge of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in the south of Guangdong Province, facing Nanhai District and Shunde District in the east, Gaoming District in the north, Pengjiang District and Xinhui District in the south, and Kaiping City and Xinxing County in the west. 325 National Highway, Jianghe Expressway, Fokai Expressway and Jiangzhao Highway run through the city. One of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Heshan was founded as a county in the tenth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1732). It was named because there are mountains in the city that look like cranes. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was jointly known as Gaohe County with Gaoming County, and the organizational system of Heshan County was restored in 1982. In November 1993, the county was withdrawn and established as a city, under the jurisdiction of 10 towns, 22 community committees, 137 village committees and 10 immigrant villages in the three Gorges Reservoir area. Heshan City has won "80 well-off counties (cities)" and "one of the top 100 counties with national comprehensive strength".