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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.

Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, referred to as Ganzi Prefecture, is located in the west of Sichuan Province and southeast of the Kangzang-Tibet Plateau. With a total area of 153000 square kilometers, it is a prefecture-level administrative district dominated by Tibetans. The whole prefecture has jurisdiction over Kangding, a county-level city, 17 counties, including Luding and Danba, 325 townships (towns) and 2679 administrative villages. The state capital is located in Kangding City, which is the political, economic and cultural center of the whole state. it is famous at home and abroad for its "Kangding Love Song" and is known as the hometown of love songs. Ganzi Prefecture is rich in hydraulic and geothermal resources; there are pandas, red pandas, golden monkeys, white-lipped deer and other wild animals; there are Gastrodia elata, Cordyceps sinensis, Fritillaria, Angelica, Astragalus and other valuable traditional Chinese medicine. There are gold, silver, copper, iron, molybdenum, lithium, marble, granite and other mineral resources. Kangding, Yajiang and Daofu counties (cities) in Ganzi Prefecture
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