Chinatown
The Chinatown neighborhood in Oakland, California, is traditionally Chinese which reflects Oakland's diverse Chinese American, and more broadly Asian American community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Neighborhood with 3,430 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Oakland, California
- Also known as: “Chinatown, Oakland”, “Chinatown, Oakland, California”, and “Oakland Chinatown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Asian Branch Library.
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Community center
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center, also referred to as the OACC, is an Oakland-based nonprofit cultural center that carries out Asian and Pacific Islander American arts and culture programs.
Oakland Hotel
Historic building
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Oakland Hotel is a historic building in Oakland, California. It was built as a luxury hotel by P.J. Walker in 1912, with investments from businessmen Francis Marion Smith, Edson Adams and W.W.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Oakland and Civic Center.
Old Oakland
Neighborhood
Old Oakland is a historic district in downtown Oakland, California. The area is located on the northwest side of Broadway, between the City Center complex and the Jack London Square district, and across Broadway from Chinatown.
Civic Center
Neighborhood
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oakland's Civic Center neighborhood is a residential and public building district on the east side of Oakland's Central Business District. Its borders are roughly Downtown and Harrison Street to the west, the East Lake Neighborhood and Lakeshore Avenue to the east, the Lakeside Apartments District and 14th Street to the North, and Chinatown and 11th Street to the South.
Downtown Oakland
Suburb
Photo: Dcoetzee, Public domain.
Downtown Oakland is the central business district of Oakland, California, United States. It is located roughly bounded by both the Oakland Estuary and Interstate 880 on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast, and Lake Merritt on the east.
Chinatown
- Categories: Chinatown and locality
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.79993° or 37° 47′ 60″ northLongitude
-122.27024° or 122° 16′ 13″ westPopulation
3,430Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
849VQPXH+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 150960053OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5336475Wikidata ID
Q5100154
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Persian—“Chinatown” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “屋崙華埠”
- Dutch: “Chinatown”
- French: “Chinatown”
- Persian: “چایناتاون (اوکلند)”
- Persian: “چایناتاون”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chinatown”. Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.