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Appearance move to sidebar hide Coordinates: 33°40′10″N 117°49′23″W / 33.66944°N 117.82306°W / 33.66944; -117.82306 From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irvine, California
Charter city[1]
Clockwise from top: Irvine Civic Center; San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary; University of California, Irvine; Balloon ride at Orange County Great Park; and "Giant Wheel" at Irvine Spectrum Center
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Location of Irvine in Orange County, California.
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Coordinates: 33°40′10″N 117°49′23″W / 33.66944°N 117.82306°W / 33.66944; -117.82306[2]
Country	United States
State	California
County	Orange
Incorporated	December 28, 1971[3][4]
Named for	James Irvine
Area[5]
•Total	65.92sqmi (170.74km2)
•Land	65.61sqmi (169.94km2)
•Water	0.31sqmi (0.80km2)
Elevation[2]	56ft (17m)
Population(2020)[6]
•Total	307,670
•Rank	3rd in Orange County14th in California63rd in the United States
•Density	4,689.1/sqmi (1,810.46/km2)
Demonym	Irvinian
Time zone	UTC−08:00 (Pacific)
•Summer (DST)	UTC−07:00 (PDT)
ZIP Codes[7]	92602–92604, 92606, 92612, 92614, 92616–92620, 92623, 92650, 92697
Area codes	949, 657/714
FIPS code	06-36770[8]
GNIS feature IDs	1660804, 2410116
Website	cityofirvine.org

Irvine (pronounced /ˈɜrvaɪn/) is a city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mostly made by the Irvine Company since the 1960s.[9] The city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971. The 66 square miles (170km2) city has a population of 307,670 as of 2020.[6] It has united in the past a green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped area to the north, and has also united the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, most of which is planned to be converted into the Orange County Great Park.

The University of California, the highest level of the state's public higher education system, has a campus in Irvine.

Irvine is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area.

References

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1. ↑ "Municode Library". library.municode.com.
2. 1 2 "Irvine". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
3. ↑ "Demographics". City of Irvine. June 4, 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
4. ↑ "California Cities by Incorporation Date". California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions. Archived from the original (Word) on November 3, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
5. ↑ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
6. 1 2 QuickFacts Irvine city, California, August 12, 2021
7. ↑ "ZIP Code(tm) Lookup". United States Postal Service. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
8. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
9. ↑ "Donald Bren". biography-wiki.com (in Russian). 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2023-03-03.[permanent dead link]

v t e Greater Los Angeles Area
Central city	Los Angeles
Counties	Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino Ventura
Cities >200k	Anaheim Fontana Glendale Huntington Beach Irvine Long Beach Moreno Valley Oxnard Riverside San Bernardino Santa Ana Santa Clarita
Cities and towns100k−200k	Burbank Corona Costa Mesa Downey East Los Angeles El Monte Fullerton Garden Grove Inglewood Jurupa Valley Lancaster Murrieta Menifee Norwalk Ontario Orange Palmdale Pasadena Pomona Rancho Cucamonga Rialto Simi Valley Temecula Thousand Oaks Torrance Ventura Victorville West Covina
Area regions	Antelope Valley Central Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles Gateway Cities Greater Hollywood Inland Empire Palos Verdes San Bernardino Valley San Fernando Valley San Gabriel Valley
Landforms	Coachella Valley Colorado Desert Mojave Desert San Gabriel Mountains Santa Monica Mountains Santa Susana Mountains
Bodies of water	Los Angeles River Rio Hondo San Juan Creek Santa Ana River Santa Margarita River

v t e Municipalities and communities of Orange County, California, United States
County seat: Santa Ana
Cities	Aliso Viejo Anaheim Brea Buena Park Costa Mesa Cypress Dana Point Fountain Valley Fullerton Garden Grove Huntington Beach Irvine La Habra La Palma Laguna Beach Laguna Hills Laguna Niguel Laguna Woods Lake Forest Los Alamitos Mission Viejo Newport Beach Orange Placentia Rancho Santa Margarita San Clemente San Juan Capistrano Santa Ana Seal Beach Stanton Tustin Villa Park Westminster Yorba Linda
CDPs	Coto de Caza Ladera Ranch Las Flores Midway City North Tustin Rossmoor
Unincorporatedcommunities	Anaheim Island Modjeska Canyon Orange Park Acres Santiago Canyon Silverado Trabuco Canyon
Ghost towns	Carbondale

v t e The 100 most populous cities of the United States
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Cities ranked by United States Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2024.

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