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Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay Area and the eighth most populated city in California. With a population of 440,646 in 2020, it serves as the Bay Area's trade center and economic engine: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth busiest in the United States of America. An act to incorporate the city was passed on May 4, 1852, and incorporation was later approved on March 25, 1854. Oakland is a charter city.

Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. In the late 18th century, it became part of a large rancho grant in the colony of New Spain. Its land served as a resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco. The fertile flatland soils helped it become a prolific agricultural region. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the western terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Francisco citizens moved to Oakland, enlarging the population, increasing its housing stock, and improving its infrastructure. It continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry.

Baoji, known as Chen Cang and Yongcheng in ancient times, is known as "the hometown of Emperor Yan and the hometown of bronzes". It is an important node city of Guanzhong Plain Urban agglomeration and the deputy central city of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. Located in the west of Guanzhong Plain, it has jurisdiction over 3 districts and 9 counties, with a total area of 18100 square kilometers. At the end of 2018, the resident population was 3.771 million. Baoji has a long history and is the seat of Baoxue (Baoji School). It has a history of more than 2700 years. It has unearthed the four great national treasures of the late Qing Dynasty, stone drums, he Zun and other cultural relics, as well as Chinese crafts such as Xifu Social Fire, Fengxiang wooden New year paintings, clay sculptures and so on. Baoji is a national civilized city, an excellent tourist city in China, a national forest city and a national ecological garden city. It has Famen Temple, Taibai Mountain National Forest Park, Guanshan grassland and Chinese Stone Drum Garden (Baoji).
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