Kensington

Kensington is an unincorporated community and census designated place located in the , in the East Bay, part of the , in , United States.
Wikipedia
Photo: John Lambert Pearson, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Village with 5,080 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in California, United States
  • Also known as: “Kensington Park”, “Kensington, CA”, and “Kensington, California”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blake Garden and Jewel Lake.

Garden
Photo: John Lambert Pearson, CC BY 2.0.
is a teaching facility for the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design in the hills of Kensington, California, in the region of the Bay Area in , approximately 4 mi north of the main University of California, Berkeley campus.

Reservoir
Photo: Chickmarkley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former and artificial lake along , a small stream in in Tilden Regional Park. It is located in the Wildcat Canyon between the and Sobrante Ridge Hills in an unincorporated area closest to and Kensington, California geographically and accessibly.

Cemetery
Photo: Lasthib, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thousand Oaks and El Cerrito.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood of in , . Located at the base of the , it lies at an elevation of 239 feet.

Photo: LPS.1, CC0.
is a city in , United States, and forms part of the . It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
The area of is a residential district located in the northeastern section of the city, occupying most of the hill area north of .

Kensington

Latitude
37.91048° or 37° 54′ 38″ north
Longitude
-122.28025° or 122° 16′ 49″ west
Population
5,080
Elevation
581 feet (177 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US C3A
Open location code
849VWP69+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150944824
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5362849
Wiki­data ID
Q3296036
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Kensington” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كينغستون”
  • Basque: “Kensington”
  • Catalan: “Kensington”
  • Cebuano: “Kensington”
  • Chechen: “Кенсингтон”
  • Chinese: “Kensington”
  • Chinese: “肯辛頓”
  • Croatian: “Kensington”
  • Danish: “Kensington”
  • Dutch: “Kensington”
  • French: “Kensington”
  • German: “Kensington”
  • Gilaki: “کنزینگتن”
  • Greek: “Κένσινγκτον”
  • Hebrew: “קנסינגטון”
  • Irish: “Kensington”
  • Italian: “Kensington”
  • Japanese: “ケンジントン”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kensington”
  • Ladin: “Kensington”
  • Malagasy: “Kensington, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Kensington”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kensington”
  • Newari: “केन्सिंगटन (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “केन्सिंगटन, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “केन्सिंगटन”
  • Persian: “کنزینگتون، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “کنزینگتون”
  • Polish: “Kensington”
  • Portuguese: “Kensington”
  • Russian: “Кенсингтон”
  • Serbian: “Кенсингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kensington, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kensington”
  • Silesian: “Kensington”
  • Slovenian: “Kensington”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کنزینقتون، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Kensington (California)”
  • Spanish: “Kensington”
  • Swedish: “Kensington, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Kensington”
  • Tatar: “Кенсингтон”
  • Turkish: “Kensington”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенсінгтон”
  • Urdu: “کنسنگٹن، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Kensington”

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Notable Places Nearby

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