Los Angeles Consular Corps

The Consular Corps promotes positive diplomatic relationships between the 105 countries that maintain consulates in Los Angeles through regular meetings, luncheons, special events, and publicizing national days which celebrate various independence days and holidays in member nations.

The majority of the Consulates in Los Angeles are located in the Wilshire corridor, throughout West L.A., Beverly Hills, and Koreatown.

The government offices responsible for dealing with the foreign consulates in Los Angeles are: The Los Angeles Consular Corps includes representatives from over 100 nations, including the following countries:[3] Additionally, the Los Angeles Consular Corps includes foreign trade missions, foreign commercial offices: See here for a full list of diplomatic missions in Los Angeles In terms of international affairs, Los Angeles is particularly unique because it is neither a national capital (or even a state capital), nor headquarters for a major international organization such as the UN, nor a major financial center (such as Sydney, Shanghai, and Frankfurt) and still has attracted over one hundred foreign consulates.

The Los Angeles customs district is the largest in the U.S. in terms of international trade capital and volume.

With nearly 300 languages spoken, and the largest communities of Koreans, Armenians, Persians, Filipinos, Taiwanese, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and Canadians outside their respective countries of origin, L.A. is a cosmopolitan and international melting pot.