Garden Grove

City in Orange County, southwest California, USA; population (1994 est) 148,000. It is located 50 km/31 mi southeast of the Los Angeles city centre, and lies to the southwest of Anaheim, on the Santa Ana River. It is a residential and industrial suburb. Aerospace and electronics plants in the area are vital to the local economy.

Garden Grove developed in the late 19th century as a trade and processing centre in a region in which citrus fruit, truck crops, and walnuts were grown; some processing is still done. A thriving Vietnamese community here is locally called Little Saigon. Televangelist Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral is a well-known landmark; it was designed by the US architect Philip Johnson.