Hollywood

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This article is about the neighborhood in Los Angeles. For information about the American film
industry, see Cinema of the United States. For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Holywood in Northern Ireland.
"Tinseltown" redirects here. For the TV series, see Tinsel Town.

Hollywood
Tinseltown

Neighborhood of Los Angeles

The Four Ladies installation

at the Hollywood Boulevard
La Brea Avenue Gateway

Map of the Hollywood neighborhood of Los

Angeles,
as delineated by the Los Angeles Times

Hollywood
Location within Central Los Angeles

Coordinates:

3460N 118200W

Hollywood (/hliwd/ HOL-ee-wuud) is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles,

California. The neighborhood is notable for its place as the home of the film industry, including
several of its historic studios. Its name has come to be a metonymfor the motion picture industry of
the United States. Hollywood is also a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically
diverse neighborhood and retail business district.
Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. [1][2] It
officially merged with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent film
industry began to emerge, eventually becoming the most dominant and recognizable in the world. [3]
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