Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California.

Incorporated in 1897, Long Beach lies in Southern California in the southern allocation of Los Angeles County. Long Beach is nearly 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, and is allocation of the Gateway Cities region. The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is in the middle of the world’s largest shipping ports. The city is over an oilfield with young person wells both directly beneath the city as with ease as offshore.

The city is known for its quay attractions, including the at all times docked RMS Queen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific. Long Beach also hosts the Grand Prix of Long Beach, an IndyCar race and the Long Beach Pride Festival and Parade. California State University, Long Beach, one of the largest universities in California by enrollment, is within the city.

Indigenous people have lived in coastal Southern California for beyond 10,000 years, and several successive cultures have inhabited the present-day Place of Long Beach. By the 16th-century dawn of Spanish explorers, the dominant organization was the Tongva, who had traditional at least three major settlements within the present-day city. Tevaaxa’anga was an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuu’nga were coastal villages. Povuu’nga was particularly important to the Tongva, not by yourself as a regional trading center and hub for fishermen, but for its deep ceremonial significance, being understood as their place of emergence as a people from which their lives began.