Berkeley

Set on sparkling San Francisco Bay, Berkeley will surprise those who recall it as the counter-culture center of the 1960s. Free Speech and flower power are forever in the city "DNA," but Berkeley has evolved into a culinary and cultural travel destination.
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  • Type: City with 121,000 residents
  • Description: city in Alameda County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Berkeleia (California)”, “Berkeleo”, “Berkeley (California)”, “Berkeley (Kalifornia)”, “Berkeley, CA”, “Berkeley, California”, “Bērklija”, “Berklio”, “Bkly”, “BURK”, “Беркелей”, “Беркли, Калифорния”, “Бэрклі (Каліфорнія)”, “بيركلي”, “بيركيلي (كاليفورنيا)”, “بیرکلی”, “بیرکڵی”, “بێرکڵی کالیفۆڕنیا”, “شهر برکلی”, “버클리시”, and “柏克利”
  • Postal codes: 94701-94705, 94707-94710, 94712, and 94720
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and UC Berkeley School of Law.

Museum
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The are…

College
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The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law…

Public building
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, also known as the Maudelle…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Albany and Elmwood.

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is a city on the east shore…

Neighborhood
The District is a neighborhood of the city of Berkeley, California.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood and tract of land…

Berkeley

Latitude
37.8708° or 37° 52′ 15″ north
Longitude
-122.2729° or 122° 16′ 22″ west
Population
121,000
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
IATA airport code
JBK
UN/LOCODE
US JBK
Open location code
849VVPCG+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 100571506
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5327684
Wiki­data ID
Q484678
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Berkeley” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “በርክሌይ”
  • Arabic: “بيركيلي”
  • Armenian: “Բերկլի”
  • Armenian: “Բերքլի”
  • Asturian: “Berkeley”
  • Azerbaijani: “Berkli”
  • Bashkir: “Беркли”
  • Basque: “Berkeley”
  • Belarusian: “Берклі”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрклі”
  • Bengali: “বার্কলে”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъркли”
  • Catalan: “Berkeley”
  • Cebuano: “Berkeley”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرکڵی”
  • Chechen: “Беркли”
  • Chinese: “伯克利”
  • Chinese: “柏克萊”
  • Cornish: “Berkeley, California”
  • Cornish: “Berkeley”
  • Croatian: “Berkeley, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Berkeley”
  • Czech: “Berkeley”
  • Dagbani: “Berkeley”
  • Danish: “Berkeley”
  • Dutch: “Berkeley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيركيلى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيريكلى”
  • Esperanto: “Berkeley”
  • Esperanto: “Berkelio”
  • Estonian: “Berkeley”
  • Finnish: “Berkeley”
  • French: “Berkeley”
  • Galician: “Berkeley, California”
  • Galician: “Berkeley”
  • Georgian: “ბერკლი”
  • German: “Berkeley”
  • Gilaki: “برکلي”
  • Greek: “Μπέρκλεϋ”
  • Greek: “Μπέρκλι”
  • Gujarati: “બર્કલે”
  • Haitian: “Berkeley, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Berkeley”
  • Hebrew: “ברקלי”
  • Hindi: “बर्कली, कैलिफोर्निया”
  • Hindi: “बर्कली, कैलिफ़ोर्निया”
  • Hindi: “बर्कली”
  • Hungarian: “Berkeley”
  • Icelandic: “Berkeley”
  • Ido: “Berkeley, Kalifornia”
  • Ido: “Berkeley”
  • Indonesian: “Berkeley, California”
  • Indonesian: “Berkeley”
  • Irish: “Berkeley, California”
  • Irish: “Berkeley”
  • Italian: “Berkeley”
  • Japanese: “バークリー”
  • Japanese: “バークレー”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕೆಲಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “بَرکِلی”
  • Kazakh: “Беркли”
  • Kirghiz: “Беркли_(Калифорния)”
  • Kirghiz: “Беркли_”
  • Kirghiz: “Беркли”
  • Korean: “버클리”
  • Ladin: “Berkeley”
  • Latin: “Berkeleia”
  • Latvian: “Bērkli”
  • Lithuanian: “Berklis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Berkeley”
  • Macedonian: “Беркли”
  • Malagasy: “Berkeley”
  • Malay: “Berkeley, California”
  • Malay: “Berkeley”
  • Malayalam: “ബർക്കിലി”
  • Maltese: “Berkeley”
  • Manx: “Berkeley”
  • Marathi: “बर्क्ली”
  • Mazanderani: “برکلی (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “برکلی”
  • Mingrelian: “ბერკლი”
  • Moksha: “Бэркли”
  • Mongolian: “Беркли”
  • Navajo: “Tsiiyog Hadahodííłdládí”
  • Newari: “बर्कली, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “बर्केली”
  • Northern Frisian: “Berkeley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berkeley”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berkeley”
  • Norwegian: “Berkeley”
  • Ossetian: “Беркли”
  • Pampanga: “Berkeley, California”
  • Pampanga: “Berkeley”
  • Persian: “برکلی، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “برکلی”
  • Piemontese: “Berkeley”
  • Polish: “Berkeley”
  • Portuguese: “Berkeley”
  • Pushto: “برکلي”
  • Romanian: “Berkeley, California”
  • Romanian: “Berkeley”
  • Russian: “Беркли”
  • Scots: “Berkeley”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berkeley, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berkeley”
  • Serbian: “Berkli”
  • Serbian: “Беркли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Berkeley, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Berkeley”
  • Silesian: “Berkeley”
  • Sinhala: “බර්කර්ලි”
  • Slovak: “Berkeley”
  • Slovenian: “Berkeley, Kalifornija”
  • Slovenian: “Berkeley”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برکلئی، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Berkeley”
  • Swahili: “Berkeley, California”
  • Swahili: “Berkeley”
  • Swedish: “Berkeley, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Berkeley”
  • Tagalog: “Berkeley”
  • Tajik: “Беркли”
  • Talysh: “Berkli”
  • Tamil: “பெர்க்லி”
  • Tatar: “Беркли”
  • Telugu: “బర్కిలీ”
  • Thai: “เบิร์กลีย์”
  • Turkish: “Berkeley, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Berkeley”
  • Ukrainian: “Берклі”
  • Urdu: “برکلے، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “برکلے”
  • Uzbek: “Berkeley”
  • Venetian: “Berkeley”
  • Vietnamese: “Berkeley, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Berkeley”
  • Volapük: “Berkeley”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Berkeley, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Berkeley”
  • Welsh: “Berkeley, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Berkeley”
  • Western Armenian: “Պերքլի քաղաք”
  • Western Panjabi: “برکلے”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯克利 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯克利（加利福尼亚州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯克利”
  • Yakut: “Беркли”
  • Yue Chinese: “柏克萊”
  • “Berkeley”

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