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Berkshire

Berkshire County is the county in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 129,026. Its largest city and traditional county seat is .
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  • Type: County with 129,000 residents
  • Description: county in Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Berkshire County”, “Berkshire County, MA”, and “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arrowhead.

Museum
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, also known as the Herman Melville House, is a historic house museum in . It was the home of American author Herman Melville during his most productive years, 1850–1863.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pittsfield and Lenox.

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is a small city in western . It is the largest city in Berkshire County and home to Berkshire Community College.

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is a town in the of , about 3 hours from and 2½ hours from . is an arts-lover's dream, home to Tanglewood. There are also several stately mansions and prestigious boarding schools in the area.

Berkshire

Latitude
42.4° or 42° 24′ north
Longitude
-73.2323° or 73° 13′ 56″ west
Population
129,000
Elevation
1,814 feet (553 metres)
Open location code
87J89QX9+X3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2000823118
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4930396
Wiki­data ID
Q54165
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Berkshire” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Berkshire County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بيركشاير”
  • Armenian: “Բերկշիր շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Berkshire”
  • Basque: “Berkshire konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Bavarian: “Berkshire County”
  • Belarusian: “акруга Беркшыр”
  • Belarusian: “Беркшыр (акруга)”
  • Belarusian: “Беркшыр (Масачусетс)”
  • Belarusian: “Беркшыр”
  • Bishnupriya: “বার্কশায়ার কাউন্টি, ম্যাসাচুসেট্‌স”
  • Bishnupriya: “বার্কশায়ার কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъргсшър”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъркшър”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Berkshire”
  • Cebuano: “Berkshire County”
  • Chechen: “Беркшир (гуо, Массачусетс)”
  • Chechen: “Беркшир”
  • Chinese: “Berkshire Kūn”
  • Chinese: “伯克夏縣”
  • Chinese: “伯克希尔县”
  • Czech: “Berkshire County”
  • Danish: “Berkshire County”
  • Dutch: “Berkshire County”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة بيركشاير، ماساتشوستس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة بيركشاير”
  • Esperanto: “Berkshire County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Berkshire”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Berkshire”
  • Estonian: “Berkshire’i maakond”
  • Finnish: “Berkshiren piirikunta”
  • French: “Berkshire County”
  • French: “comté de Berkshire”
  • French: “Comté de Berkshire”
  • Galician: “Condado de Berkshire, Massachusetts”
  • Galician: “Condado de Berkshire”
  • Georgian: “ბერკშირის ოლქი”
  • German: “Berkshire County”
  • Gilaki: “برکشر ٚ شأرستان (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “برکشر ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ברקשייר”
  • Hungarian: “Berkshire megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Berkshire, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Contae Berkshire”
  • Italian: “Berkshire County”
  • Italian: “contea di Berkshire”
  • Italian: “Contea di Berkshire”
  • Japanese: “バークシャー郡”
  • Korean: “버크셔군”
  • Latin: “Barcheriensis comitatus”
  • Latin: “Berkshire Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Berkshire County”
  • Marathi: “बर्कशायर काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “برکشر شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Berkshire Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Berkshire Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Berkshire County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berkshire County”
  • Norwegian: “Berkshire County”
  • Ossetian: “Беркшир (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Беркшир”
  • Persian: “شهرستان برکشر، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “شهرستان برکشر”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Berkshire”
  • Portuguese: “Berkshire County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Berkshire”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Berkshire”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Berkshire, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Berkshire”
  • Russian: “Беркшир”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Berkshire”
  • Scots: “Berkshire Coonty”
  • Scots: “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berkshire County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Беркшир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Berkshire County”
  • Slovenian: “Berkshire County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Berkshire”
  • Spanish: “Berkshire County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Berkshire”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Berkshire”
  • Swedish: “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Berkshire County”
  • Tajik: “Беркшир”
  • Tatar: “Беркшир (округ, Массачусетс)”
  • Tatar: “Беркшир”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire County, MA”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire County, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire County”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire ilçesi, MA”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire ilçesi, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire ilçesi, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Berkshire ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Беркшир”
  • Urdu: “برکسشائر کاؤنٹی، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “برکسشائر کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de contea de Berk”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Berkshire, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Berkshire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Berkshire, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Berkshire”
  • Welsh: “Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Berkshire County”
  • Western Panjabi: “برکشائر کاؤنٹی”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include George L. Darey Housatonic Valley Wildlife Management Area and New Lenox Cemetery.

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