Chinatown

The Chinatown neighborhood in , is traditionally Chinese which reflects Oakland's diverse Chinese American, and more broadly Asian American community.
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  • 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.

Community center
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
The , 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.

Historic building
The is a historic building in . 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.

Neighborhood
is a historic district in downtown . The area is located on the northwest side of Broadway, between the City Center complex and the district, and across Broadway from Chinatown.

Neighborhood
Oakland's 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 and 14th Street to the North, and Chinatown and 11th Street to the South.

Suburb
Photo: Dcoetzee, Public domain.
is the central business district of , United States. It is located roughly bounded by both the and Interstate 880 on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast, and on the east.

Chinatown

Latitude
37.79993° or 37° 47′ 60″ north
Longitude
-122.27024° or 122° 16′ 13″ west
Population
3,430
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
849VQPXH+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150960053
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
5336475
Wiki­data ID
Q5100154
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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.