Oakland
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States of America. Once overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor lying directly to the west, Oakland has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.
Photo: BDS2006, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
African American Museum and Library at Oakland
Museum
The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is a museum and non-circulating library dedicated to preserving African American history, experiences and culture on 14th Street in Downtown Oakland. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oakland City Hall
Town hall
Oakland City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Oakland, California. Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pixar
Recording studio
Pixar Animation Studios, commonly known as Pixar, is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios owned by The Walt Disney Company. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The MADE
Museum
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is an Oakland, California, museum dedicated to digital art and gaming, with fully playable gaming exhibits. Photo: Brandt Luke Zorn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Emeryville
Emeryville is a small city on the San Francisco Bay that acts as a gateway to the East Bay from San Francisco. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.Alameda
Alameda is an island in the East Bay of the Bay Area, California in the United States of America. Photo: Thatotherperson, CC BY-SA 3.0.Piedmont
Town
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States of America. Photo: Sam Pullara, CC BY 2.0.
Oakland
- Type: City
- Description: port city and county seat of Alameda County, California, United States
- Categories: big city, city of the United States, sanctuary city and charter city
- Location: Alameda County, East Bay, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- Postal codes: 94601-94607, 94609-94615, 94617-94619, 94621, 94623, 94624, 94649, 94659-94661 and 94666
- Neighbors: Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville and San Leandro
Latitude 37.8045° or 37° 48' 16" north | Longitude -122.2714° or 122° 16' 16.9" west |
Population 433,000 | IATA airport code OAK |
United Nations Location Code US OAK | Elevation 43 feet (13 metres) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 150980683 | GeoNames ID 5378538 |
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Oakland
- Albanian: Oakland
- Arabic: Oakland, California
- Arabic: أوكلاند (كاليفورنيا)
- Arabic: أوكلاند
- Arabic: أوكلاند، كاليفورنيا
- Arabic: أوكلند، كاليفورنيا
- Arabic: اوكلاند، كاليفورنيا
- Aragonese: Oakland
- Armenian: Օքլենդ
- Asturian: Oakland
- Azerbaijani: Oklend
- Bambara: Oakland
- Basque: Oakland
- Belarusian: Окленд
- Belarusian: Оўклэнд
- Bengali: ওকল্যান্ড
- Breton: Oakland
- Bulgarian: Окланд
- Bulgarian: Оукланд
- Catalan: Oakland
- Cebuano: Oakland
- Chinese: Oakland
- Chinese: 奥克兰/奧克蘭/屋崙
- Chinese: 奥克兰
- Chinese: 奧克蘭
- Chinese: 屋崙
- Cornish: Oakland, Kaliforni
- Croatian: Oakland, Kalifornija
- Czech: Oakland
- Danish: Oakland
- Dutch: Oakland
- Eastern Mari: Окленд
- Egyptian Arabic: اوكلاند
- English: City of Oakland
- English: Oakland, California
- Esperanto: Oakland
- Estonian: Oakland
- Finnish: Oakland
- French: Oakland
- Galician: Oakland
- Georgian: ოკლენდი
- German: Oakland
- Greek: Όουκλαντ
- Gujarati: ઓકલેન્ડ
- Haitian: Oakland, Kalifòni
- Hebrew: אוקלנד (קליפורניה)
- Hebrew: אוקלנד
- Hindi: ओकलैंड
- Hungarian: Oakland
- Icelandic: Oakland
- Ido: Oakland, Kalifornia
- Inari Sami: Oakland
- Indonesian: Oakland, California
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Oakland, California
- Interlingue: Oakland
- Irish: Oakland, California
- Irish: Oakland
- Italian: Oakland
- Japanese: オークランド (カリフォルニア州)
- Japanese: オークランド
- Japanese: カリフォルニア州オークランド
- Japanese: 王府
- Javanese: Oakland, California
- Kalo Finnish Romani: Oakland
- Kannada: ಓಕ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್
- Kildin Sami: Окленд
- Korean: 오클랜드
- Kurdish: Oakland, Kalîforniya
- Latin: Quercupolis
- Latvian: Oklenda
- Limburgan: Oakland
- Lithuanian: Oklandas
- Lombard: Oakland, California
- Lule Sami: Oakland
- Luxembourgish: Oakland
- Macedonian: Оукленд
- Malagasy: Oakland, California
- Malagasy: Oakland, Kalifornia
- Malay: Oakland, California
- Malay: Oakland
- Malayalam: ഓക്ൿലാന്റ്, കാലിഫോർണിയ
- Malayalam: ഓക്ലാന്റ്, കാലിഫോർണിയ
- Marathi: ओकलंड
- Min Nan Chinese: Oakland
- Navajo: Chéchʼiltah Hatsoh
- Nepali: ओकल्याण्ड
- Nepali: ओकल्यान्ड, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: Oakland, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: ओकल्यान्ड (क्यालिफोर्निया)
- Newari: ओकल्यान्ड, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: ओकल्यान्ड
- Northern Frisian: Oakland (California)
- Northern Frisian: Oakland
- Northern Sami: Oakland
- Norwegian: Oakland
- Norwegian Bokmål: Oakland
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Oakland i California
- Occitan (post 1500): Oakland
- Pampanga: Oakland, California
- Persian: اوکلند
- Persian: اوکلند، کالیفرنیا
- Piemontese: Oakland
- Pite Sami: Oakland
- Polish: Oakland
- Portuguese: Oakland
- Romanian: Oakland, California
- Romanian: Oakland
- Russian: Окленд
- Scots: Oakland, Californie
- Scots: Oakland
- Scottish Gaelic: Oakland
- Serbian: Оукланд
- Serbo-Croatian: Oakland, California
- Serbo-Croatian: Oakland
- Silesian: Oakland
- Sinhala: ඕක්ලන්ඩ්
- Skolt Sami: Oakland
- Slovak: Oakland
- Slovenian: Oakland, Kalifornija
- Somali: Oakland, Kaliforniya
- Somali: Oakland
- South Azerbaijani: اوکلند
- Southern Sami: Oakland
- Spanish: Oakland
- Spanish: Oakland (California)
- Swahili: Oakland, California
- Swedish: Oakland
- Tagalog: Oakland, California
- Tagalog: Oakland, Kaliporniya
- Tamil: ஓக்லண்ட், கலிபோர்னியா
- Tamil: ஓக்லண்ட்
- Tatar: Оукленд
- Telugu: ఓక్ ల్యాండ్
- Thai: โอ๊กแลนด์
- Tornedalen Finnish: Oakland
- Turkish: Oakland, Kaliforniya
- Ukrainian: Окленд
- Ume Sami: Oakland
- Urdu: اوکلینڈ، کیلیفورنیا
- Uzbek: Oakland
- Vietnamese: Oakland, California
- Vietnamese: Oakland
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Oakland
- Volapük: Oakland
- Waray (Philippines): Oakland, California
- Welsh: Oakland, Califfornia
- Welsh: Oakland
- Western Frisian: Oakland
- Western Mari: Окленд
- Western Panjabi: اوکلینڈ
- Wu Chinese: 奥克兰 (加利福尼亚州)
- Yakut: Окленд
- Yiddish: אויקלאנד
- Yiddish: אקלאנד
- Yoruba: Oakland
- Yue Chinese: 奧克蘭
- אקלאנד, קאליפארניע
Other Places Named Oakland
In the Area
Localities
- Old OaklandNeighborhood
- ChinatownNeighborhood
- Uptown OaklandNeighborhood
- Civic CenterNeighborhood
- Lakeside Apartments DistrictNeighborhood
- Jack London SquareNeighborhood
Landmarks
- Frank H. Ogawa PlazaPark
- Lincoln UniversityCollege
- Latham SquareSquare
- Oakland Convention Center HeliportHeliport
- Asian Branch LibraryLibrary
- Oakland School for the ArtsSchool
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