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Coordinates: 34°10′15″N 118°15′00″W 34.17083, -118.25

Glendale

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is bordered to the northwest by the Tujunga neighborhood of Los Angeles to the northeast by La Caada Flintridge and the unincorporated area of La Crescenta to the west by Burbank to the east by Pasadena to the southwest by the Atwater Village neighborhood of East Los Angeles and to the southeast by the Eagle Rock and Glassell Park neighborhoods of East Los Angeles. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city. The city is policed by the Glendale Police Department.As of the 2000 census, the city population was 194,973. Since then, there have been estimates of 201,326 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2004 and 207,007 by the California State government in 2005, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the seventeenth largest city in the state of California.Glendale is famous for having helped -- in conjunction with Burbank -- father the emerging age of aviation, with its now defunct Grand Central Airport.Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery contains the remains of many celebrities and local residents. It is famous as the pioneer of a new style of cemetery.^[1]

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