Chapter 1: Regions and Themes

      Chapter 1 deal with some basic and very general information about the geography. I will talk about some basic information such as location and history about Oakland.

      Oakland is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California. Oakland is located at 37°48'16"N 122°16'15W. It is a major West Coast port, located on San Francisco Bay, about 8 miles (13 km) east of San Francisco. Oakland is a central hub city for the Bay Area subregion collectively called the East Bay, and it is the county seat of Alameda County.

     

     The area was inhabited by the Ohlone people for thousands of years before Spanish settlers displaced them in the 18th and 19th centuries. New Spain became independent in 1821 under the name "Mexico." In 1846, the Territory of Alta California was conquered by American forces, becoming simply "California." Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, American squatters laid legal claim to the land held by the Peralta family. In 1852, the California legislature incorporated the town of Oakland.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California