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Long Beach CA is a city on the Pacific Coast on the southern end of Los Angeles County. The city is directly south of Los Angeles and east of Torrance and Carson.

Long Beach CA is on the coastline near Terminal Island. The San Diego Freeway or I-405 goes through the city and intersects with the Long Beach Freeway or I-710. The Pacific Coast Highway or Route 1 goes through the middle part of the city as well.

The city is home to the American offices of Epson and Pioneer Electronics. Boeing has a significant presence in the city as it employs nearly two thousand employees in the production of cargo planes. The TABC manufacturing plant is a prominent employer that hires more than a thousand people. The plant produces various car parts for numerous car companies, particularly Toyota.

The Long Beach Museum of Art houses an extensive array of Latin American art in the city. The theater program at Cal State University at Long Beach hosts events around the area throughout the year, including many performances at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music.

The RMS Queen Mary can be found off the coastline in Long Beach. This is an ocean liner that was used for transporting troops during wartime.

The city of Long Beach is known for having some of the warmest conditions in Los Angeles County. The city often has temperatures in the eighties through the summer. The highs can also be near the upper sixties during the winter. The area gets about 12 inches of precipitation every year with most of that rainfall coming during the early parts of the calendar year.

Long Beach has a population of about 460,000, thus making the city the seventh-largest in California and the 39^th-largest in the country.

Long Beach Airport is in the middle part of the city. The airport offers regular flights to Oakland, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Honolulu among other cities.

Long Beach was incorporated in Los Angeles County in 1897. The city is on a site that was owned by Jonathan Temple in the mid-nineteenth century. Brigham Young unsuccessfully tried to set up a Mormon village in the area around that time. The city grew as a manufacturing and oil drilling hub in the early twentieth century, although the area has grown to become a manufacturing hub in recent times.