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Oakland is a major West Coast port, and is home to several Fortune five hundred companies including Kaiser Permanente and Clorox, as well as corporate headquarters for national retailers like Dreyer's and Cost Plus World Markets. Rand McNally named Oakland as having the best weather in the United States , as Oakland averages sunshine seventy-three percent of all daylight hours. According to the U.S. two thousand census, Oakland and Long Beach , California are the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States , with over one hundred fifty languages spoken in Oakland . Attractions include Jack London Square , the Oakland Museum of California, Lake Merritt and Chinatown . Oakland , along with the rest of California , was claimed for the Spanish king by explorers from New Spain in seventeen seventy-two. In the early nineteenth century, the area which later became Oakland , along with most of the East Bay , was granted to Luís María Peralta by the Spanish royal government for his Rancho San Antonio. The grant was confirmed by the successor Mexican republic upon its independence from Spain . The area of the ranch that is today occupied by the downtown and extending over into the adjacent part of Alameda , originally not an island, but a peninsula, included a woodland of oak trees. This area was called encinal by the Peraltas, a Spanish word which means "oak grove", the origin of the later city's name. Upon his death in eighteen forty-two, Peralta divided his land among his four sons. Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. They would open the land to settlement by American settlers, loggers, European whalers, and fur-traders. Oakland is known by several nicknames. The most commonly-heard one is "Oaktown". It was referred to as Bump City for a short period, and is sometimes called the "Sunny Side of the Bay", as it is sunnier and less foggy than San Francisco . Another nickname is "O-town" which is a common nickname for a city beginning with the letter "O". "The Town" is a response to San Francisco 's nickname, "The City", as Oakland is sometimes considered subordinate to San Francisco . O-town and The Town are particularly common among young people in the hip hop subculture, and have been used in lyrics of the local hype variety of rap music.
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