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San Angeles is a fictional city in the West Coast state of California in the United States. It appears in the television series Sliders (episode "Double Cross"), the television series Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive and the film Demolition Man, but is different in each appearance. A fictional universe is a cohesive fictional world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Television series redirects here. ... Sliders is a science fiction television series that ran for five seasons from 1995 to 2000. ... Double Cross is the first produced, but the second aired, episode for the third season of the science fiction television show Sliders. ... Television series redirects here. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction-action film. ...


In Sliders, San Angeles was created by uniting the rapidly-expanding cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco in a megalopolis hundreds of miles long. The city - and this alternate Earth - is critically low on natural resources, resulting in power brownouts and high prices for simple resources such as food (which, on this world, mainly consists of a Soylent Green-like compound named "Geomash", although humans are not a component of the product as they are in Soylent Green). Sliders is a science fiction television series that ran for five seasons from 1995 to 2000. ... d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Founded 1776 Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... A megalopolis is defined as an extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas. ... Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ... Power Outage is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. ... Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction movie starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten and Chuck Connors. ...


In Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive, San Angeles is the name of the city in which the Hartford mansion (the Rangers' base of operations) resides. However, most of the team's adventures take place in exotic locations, so the city outside the mansion is not frequently seen.


In Demolition Man, San Angeles was created out of the aftermath of a tremendous earthquake in the year 2010. The ruins of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara - along with their surrounding metropolitan areas - were united as one megalopolis under the utopian vision of Raymond Cocteau. However, unlike the poverty of natural resources seen in the San Angeles of Sliders, the San Angeles of Demolition Man suffered from a poverty of the mind, as Cocteau closely controlled all facets of daily life - food, clothing, media, the definition of crimes, even the manner of speech - to conform to his unique vision. Consequently, though this San Angeles was pristine and clean, it was in its own way just as dystopian as the Sliders San Angeles. Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction-action film. ... An earthquake is a result from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ... Nickname: Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: , Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850 Government  - Mayor Jerry Sanders  - City Attorney Michael Aguirre  - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna Frye Jim Madaffer... d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Nickname: Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Coordinates: , County Santa Barbara Government  - Mayor Marty Blum Area  - City 111. ... Left panel (The Earthly Paradise, Garden of Eden), from Hieronymus Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights. ... The character Raymond Cocteau is a neo-puritanical leader of the futuristic city of San Angeles in the movie Demolition Man. ... This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ...


San Angeles was also mentioned as a setting for the movie Blade Runner in an early script. Blade Runner is a 1982 cyberpunk, neo-noir film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ...


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Los Angeles, California - definition of Los Angeles, California in Encyclopedia (3773 words)
Los Angeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City), with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
For example, Downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river: The Harbor Freeway to the west, the Hollywood Freeway to the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and the Santa Monica Freeway to the south.
The San Pedro/Harbor City area was annexed to the city of Los Angeles so the city could have access and control over the Port of Los Angeles and is only connected by a narrow Corridor with the rest of L.A. The city boundaries are quite complicated.
Greater Los Angeles Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (854 words)
As of 2005, the official estimate of the population of the Greater Los Angeles area is 17,545,623.
Residents of Orange County, which like those of neighboring San Diego County have their own employment base, arts, and other metropolitan amenities in the middle of their own county, thereby resulting in the residents not needing to leave the county and thereby not closely identifying with a larger area.
Or, consider the San Fernando Valley: Lying north-northwest of Downtown L.A., "The Valley" is a 15-mile (24-km) wide basin ringed by mountains.
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