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Oakland

Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of in the United States of America. Once an industrial area overshadowed by , its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people 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.
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  • Type: City with 433,000 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Alameda County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Oakland”, “Oakland, CA”, “Oakland, California”, and “Oaktown”
  • Postal codes: 94601-94607, 94609-94615, 94617-94619, 94621, 94623, 94624, 94649, 94659-94661, and 94666
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oakland City Hall and United States lightship Relief.

Town hall
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the seat of government for the city of Oakland, California. The current building was completed in 1914, and replaced a prior building that stood on what is now Frank H.

Museum
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a lightvessel now serving as a museum ship in Oakland, California. Built in 1950, she is one of a small number of surviving lightships, and one of an even smaller number built specifically for the United States Coast Guard.

Arts center
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Henry J. is a historic, publicly owned multi-purpose building located in Oakland, California. Originally known as the Oakland Civic Auditorium, it was renamed in honor of Henry J.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Emeryville and Piedmont.

Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
is a small city on the San Francisco Bay that acts as a gateway to the East Bay from . It exists at the edges of and Oakland, and at the intersection of three major freeways: I-80, I-580, and I-880.

Town
Photo: Sam Pullara, CC BY 2.0.
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of in the United States of America. Once an industrial area overshadowed by , its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people 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.

Neighborhood
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
The neighborhood in Oakland, California, is traditionally Chinese which reflects Oakland's diverse Chinese American, and more broadly Asian American community.

Oakland

Latitude
37.8045° or 37° 48′ 16″ north
Longitude
-122.2714° or 122° 16′ 17″ west
Population
433,000
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
IATA airport code
OAK
United Nations Location Code
US OAK
Open location code
849VRP3H+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150980683
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5378538
Wiki­data ID
Q17042
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oakland” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oakland”
  • Albanian: “Oakland”
  • Amharic: “ኦክለንድ፣ ካሊፎርኒያ”
  • Amharic: “ኦክለንድ፣ የተባበሩት ግዛቶች”
  • Amharic: “ኦክለንድ”
  • Arabic: “أوكلاند (كاليفورنيا)”
  • Arabic: “أوكلاند”
  • Arabic: “أوكلند، كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “اوكلاند، كاليفورنيا”
  • Aragonese: “Oakland”
  • Armenian: “Օքլենդ”
  • Arpitan: “Oakland”
  • Asturian: “Oakland”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oklend”
  • Balinese: “Oakland, California”
  • Bambara: “Oakland”
  • Basque: “Oakland”
  • Belarusian: “Окленд”
  • Belarusian: “Оўклэнд”
  • Bengali: “ওকল্যান্ড”
  • Breton: “Oakland”
  • Bulgarian: “Окланд”
  • Bulgarian: “Оукланд”
  • Catalan: “Oakland”
  • Cebuano: “Oakland”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆکلاند، کالیفۆڕنیا”
  • Chechen: “Окленд”
  • Chinese: “Oakland”
  • Chinese: “加州奧克蘭”
  • Chinese: “加州的奧克蘭”
  • Chinese: “奥克兰”
  • Chinese: “奧克蘭”
  • Chinese: “屋仑”
  • Chinese: “屋崙”
  • Cornish: “Oakland, Kaliforni”
  • Cornish: “Oakland”
  • Croatian: “Oakland, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Oakland”
  • Czech: “Oakland”
  • Danish: “Oakland”
  • Dutch: “Oakland”
  • Eastern Mari: “Окленд”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوكلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Oakland”
  • Estonian: “Oakland”
  • Faroese: “Oakland”
  • Finnish: “Oakland”
  • French: “Oakland”
  • Galician: “Oakland”
  • Georgian: “ოკლენდი”
  • German: “Oakland”
  • Gilaki: “اؤکلند”
  • Greek: “Όκλαντ”
  • Greek: “Όουκλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “ઓકલેન્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Oakland, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Oakland”
  • Hebrew: “אוקלנד (קליפורניה)”
  • Hebrew: “אוקלנד”
  • Hindi: “ओकलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Oakland”
  • Icelandic: “Oakland”
  • Ido: “Oakland, Kalifornia”
  • Ido: “Oakland”
  • Inari Sami: “Oakland”
  • Indonesian: “Oakland, California”
  • Indonesian: “Oakland”
  • Interlingua: “Oakland”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Oakland”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Oakland”
  • Kannada: “ಓಕ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kildin Sami: “Окленд”
  • Korean: “오클랜드”
  • Kurdish: “Oakland, Kalîforniya”
  • Kurdish: “Oakland”
  • Ladin: “Oakland”
  • Latin: “Quercupolis”
  • Latvian: “Oklenda”
  • Limburgan: “Oakland”
  • Lithuanian: “Oklandas”
  • Lombard: “Oakland”
  • Lule Sami: “Oakland”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oakland”
  • Macedonian: “Оукленд”
  • Malagasy: “Oakland, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Oakland”
  • Malay: “Oakland, California”
  • Malay: “Oakland”
  • Malayalam: “ഓക്ൿലാന്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഓക്‌ലാന്റ്, കാലിഫോർണിയ”
  • Maori: “Ōkerana, Karapōnia”
  • Maori: “Ōkerana”
  • Marathi: “ओकलंड”
  • Mazanderani: “اوکلند (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “اوکلند”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oakland”
  • Moksha: “Оклэнд”
  • Navajo: “Chéchʼiltah Hatsoh”
  • Nepali: “ओकल्याण्ड”
  • Nepali: “ओकल्यान्ड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “Oakland, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “अकल्यान्द, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “ओकल्यान्ड (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “ओकल्यान्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oakland”
  • Northern Sami: “Oakland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oakland (California)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oakland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oakland i California”
  • Norwegian: “Oakland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oakland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ǣcland”
  • Ossetian: “Окленд”
  • Pampanga: “Oakland, California”
  • Pampanga: “Oakland”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਕਲੈਂਡ, ਕੈਲੀਫੋਰਨੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਕਲੈਂਡ”
  • Persian: “اوکلند”
  • Piemontese: “Oakland”
  • Pite Sami: “Oakland”
  • Polish: “Oakland”
  • Portuguese: “Oakland”
  • Romanian: “Oakland, California”
  • Romanian: “Oakland”
  • Russian: “Окленд”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “Oakland”
  • Somali: “Oakland, Kaliforniya”
  • Somali: “Oakland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوکلند”
  • Southern Sami: “Oakland”
  • Spanish: “Oakland (California)”
  • Spanish: “Oakland”
  • Swahili: “Oakland, California”
  • Swahili: “Oakland”
  • Swedish: “Oakland”
  • Tagalog: “Oakland, California”
  • Tagalog: “Oakland”
  • Talysh: “Oklend (Kalifornijə)”
  • Talysh: “Oklend”
  • Tamil: “ஓக்லண்ட், கலிபோர்னியா”
  • Tamil: “ஓக்லண்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Оукленд”
  • Telugu: “ఓక్ ల్యాండ్”
  • Thai: “โอกแลนด์”
  • Thai: “โอ๊กแลนด์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Oakland”
  • Turkish: “Oakland, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Oakland”
  • Ukrainian: “Окленд”
  • Ume Sami: “Oakland”
  • Urdu: “اوکلینڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Oakland”
  • Uzbek: “Oklend”
  • Venetian: “Oakland”
  • Vietnamese: “Oakland, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Oakland”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Oakland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Oakland”
  • Volapük: “Oakland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oakland, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oakland”
  • Welsh: “Oakland, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Oakland”
  • Western Frisian: “Oakland”
  • Western Mari: “Окленд”
  • Western Panjabi: “آکلینڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوکلینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥克兰 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥克兰（加利福尼亚州）”
  • Yakut: “Окленд”
  • Yiddish: “אויקלאנד”
  • Yiddish: “אקלאנד, קאליפארניע”
  • Yiddish: “אקלאנד”
  • Yoruba: “Oakland”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧克蘭”
  • “Oakland”

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