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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.

Xiangtan County is located in the north of Nanyue Hengshan Mountain, the west bank of the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River, the northern section of the Changheng Hilly Basin, between latitude 27 °20 mi 28 °05 'north and longitude 112 °25 mi 113 °03' east, Zhuzhou City and Dengkou District in the east, Hengdong County, Hengshan County and Shuangfeng County in the south, Xiangxiang City and Shaoshan City in the west, and Xiangtan City in the north. Under the jurisdiction of 15 towns, 4 townships, a total of 645 administrative villages, 14 neighborhood committees, 14 community neighborhood committees. In 2015, according to Xiangtan County township division adjustment plan, the adjustment under the jurisdiction of 3 townships and 14 towns. Xiangtan County, known as the Pearl of Central Hunan, is the hometown of Xianglian in China and the birthplace of Huxiang culture. The whole county belongs to the comprehensive reform pilot area of resource-saving and environment-friendly society (that is, national "two-oriented society") of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration.
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