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Which state is Hollywood located in?

Hollywood is located in California.

Hollywood was originally a concept of place names, which translated into "Hollywood". It is located in the northwest suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA, and is an adjacent area of Los Angeles, with about 300,000 residents. However, due to the developed local entertainment industry, the word "Hollywood" is often directly used to refer to the film industry in Southern California.

The emergence of Hollywood and its reasons

1886, Harvey willcocks, a real estate agent, bought a piece of land of 0.6 square kilometers in the suburb of Los Angeles. Willcocks's wife likes this name very much. She planted a large number of holly trees from Scotland here and renamed her husband's farm "Hollywood", hence the name Hollywood.

191110 In October, a group of film workers from New Jersey, led by local photographers, came to a small inn called Bradu, and they converted the rented inn into a film company. In this way, they founded the first film studio in Hollywood-Nestor Film Company.

Since then, many film companies have settled in Hollywood. Famous film companies include MGM, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Radio and Television, Universal Film, America and Colombia.