Long Beach is part of Los Angeles County. Long Beach has 50.29 square miles of land area and 1.14 square miles of water area. As of 2010, the total Long Beach population is 462,257, which has grown 0.16% since 2000.
It was Nov. 9, 1970, and the prisoner was Nelson Mandela, held on Robben Island for his leading role in planning bomb attacks. A visit to a prison has a significance difficult to put into words, Mandela wrote in a letter to a friend in 1987.
Former prison cells and corridor on Robben Island Rock pile started by Nelson Mandela and added toâone rock at a timeâby former prisoners returning to the island The Muslim Moturu Kramat shrine on Robben Island