Kensington
Kensington is an unincorporated community and census designated place located in the Berkeley Hills, in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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.
Blake Garden
Garden
Photo: John Lambert Pearson, CC BY 2.0.
Blake Garden is a teaching facility for the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design in the hills of Kensington, California, a census-designated place of the East Bay region of the Bay Area in Northern California, approximately 4 mi north of the main University of California, Berkeley campus.
Jewel Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Chickmarkley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jewel Lake is a former reservoir and artificial lake along Wildcat Creek, a small stream in Northern California in Tilden Regional Park. It is located in the Wildcat Canyon between the Berkeley Hills and Sobrante Ridge Hills in an unincorporated area closest to Richmond and Kensington, California geographically and Berkeley accessibly.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thousand Oaks and El Cerrito.
Thousand Oaks
Neighborhood
Thousand Oaks is a neighborhood of Berkeley in Alameda County, California. Located at the base of the Berkeley Hills, it lies at an elevation of 239 feet.
El Cerrito
El Cerrito is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census.
Cragmont
Neighborhood
The Cragmont area of Berkeley is a residential district located in the northeastern section of the city, occupying most of the hill area north of Codornices Creek.
Kensington
Latitude
37.91048° or 37° 54′ 38″ northLongitude
-122.28025° or 122° 16′ 49″ westPopulation
5,080Elevation
581 feet (177 metres)United Nations Location Code
US C3AOpen location code
849VWP69+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 150944824OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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”
- 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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