Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, United States. The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. The population was 198,711 during the 2020 census, making it the fourth most populous city in Orange County, the most populous seashore city in Orange County, and the seventh most populous city in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Downtown Los Angeles, it is bordered by Bolsa Chica Basin State Marine Conservation Area on the west, the Pacific Ocean on the southwest, by Seal Beach upon the northwest, by Westminster upon the north, by Fountain Valley on the northeast, by Costa Mesa on the east, and by Newport Beach upon the southeast.

Huntington Beach is known for its long 9.5-mile (15.3 km) stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. Swells generated predominantly from the North Pacific in winter and from a engagement of Southern Hemisphere storms and hurricanes in the summer focus on Huntington Beach, creating consistent surf whatever year long, hence the nickname “Surf City”.

The Tongva village of Lupukngna was located in what is now Huntington Beach, with an approximate location being near the Newland House Museum. The comprehensible village of Genga, shared once the Acjachemen, was located across the Santa Ana River in what is now Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.

The main thoroughfare of Huntington Beach, Beach Boulevard, was originally a cattle route for the main industry of the Rancho. Since its grow old as a parcel of the vast Spanish estate grant, Huntington Beach has undergone many incarnations. One epoch it was known as Shell Beach, the town of Smeltzer, and later Gospel Swamp for the revival meetings that were held in the marshland where the community instructor Golden West College can currently be found. Later it became known as Fairview and subsequently Pacific City, as it developed into a tourist destination. In order to secure access to the Pacific Electric Red Car lines that used to criss-cross Los Angeles and done in Long Beach, Pacific City ceded enormous power to railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington, and thus became a city whose herald has been written into corporate sponsorship, and in imitation of much of the history of Southern California, boosterism.