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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: “Berkeley, CA”, “Berkeley, California”, “Bkly”, and “BURK”
  • Postal codes: 94701-94705, 94707-94710, 94712, and 94720
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

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

Museum
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The are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and film archive associated with the .

College
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The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law is the law school of the . The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was never the official name.

Library
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The is the main of the University of California, Berkeley Library System. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who in 1904 bequeathed funds for its construction.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Albany and Elmwood.

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is a city on the east shore of in northwestern , United States. The population was 20,271 at the 2020 United States census.

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

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood and tract of land located in the section of the city of Berkeley, California in the .

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
United Nations Location Code
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: “بيركلي”
  • Arabic: “بيركيلي (كاليفورنيا)”
  • Arabic: “بيركيلي”
  • Armenian: “Բերկլի”
  • Armenian: “Բերքլի”
  • Asturian: “Berkeley (California)”
  • Asturian: “Berkeley”
  • Azerbaijani: “Berkli”
  • Bashkir: “Беркли”
  • Basque: “Berkeley”
  • Belarusian: “Берклі”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрклі (Каліфорнія)”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрклі”
  • Bengali: “বার্কলে”
  • Bulgarian: “Berkeley”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъркли”
  • Catalan: “Berkeley”
  • Cebuano: “Berkeley”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیرکلی”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیرکڵی”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرکڵی کالیفۆڕنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرکڵی”
  • Chechen: “Беркли”
  • Chinese: “伯克利”
  • Chinese: “柏克利”
  • 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: “Berkeleo”
  • Esperanto: “Berkeley”
  • Esperanto: “Berkelio”
  • Esperanto: “Berklio”
  • Estonian: “Berkeley”
  • Finnish: “Berkeley”
  • French: “Berkeley”
  • Galician: “Berkeley, California”
  • Galician: “Berkeley”
  • Georgian: “ბერკლი”
  • German: “Berkeley, California”
  • 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 (Kalifornia)”
  • Hungarian: “Berkeley”
  • Icelandic: “Berkeley”
  • Ido: “Berkeley, Kalifornia”
  • Ido: “Berkeley”
  • Indonesian: “Berkeley, California”
  • Indonesian: “Berkeley”
  • Indonesian: “Bkly”
  • Irish: “Berkeley, California”
  • Irish: “Berkeley”
  • Italian: “Berkeley, California”
  • 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”
  • Korean: “버클리시”
  • Ladin: “Berkeley”
  • Latin: “Berkeleia (California)”
  • Latin: “Berkeleia”
  • Latvian: “Bērkli”
  • Latvian: “Bērklija”
  • Lithuanian: “Berklis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Berkeley”
  • Macedonian: “Беркли”
  • Malagasy: “Berkeley”
  • Malay: “Berkeley, California”
  • Malay: “Berkeley”
  • Malayalam: “ബർക്കിലി”
  • Maltese: “Berkeley”
  • Manx: “Berkeley, California”
  • Manx: “Berkeley”
  • Marathi: “बर्क्ली”
  • Mazanderani: “برکلی (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “برکلی”
  • Mingrelian: “ბერკლი”
  • Moksha: “Бэркли”
  • Mongolian: “Беркли”
  • Navajo: “Tsiiyog Hadahodííłdládí”
  • Newari: “बर्केली, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “बर्केली”
  • Northern Frisian: “Berkeley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berkeley”
  • Norwegian: “Berkeley”
  • Ossetian: “Беркли”
  • Pampanga: “Berkeley, California”
  • Pampanga: “Berkeley”
  • Persian: “برکلی، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “برکلی”
  • Persian: “شهر برکلی”
  • Piemontese: “Berkeley”
  • Polish: “Berkeley”
  • Portuguese: “Berkeley”
  • Pushto: “برکلي”
  • Romanian: “Berkeley, California”
  • Romanian: “Berkeley”
  • Russian: “Беркли, Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Беркли”
  • Scots: “Berkeley”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berkeley, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berkeley”
  • Serbian: “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 (California)”
  • Spanish: “Berkeley”
  • Swahili: “Berkeley, California”
  • Swahili: “Berkeley”
  • Swedish: “Berkeley, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Berkeley”
  • Tagalog: “Berkeley”
  • Tajik: “Беркли, Калифорния”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Беркелей”
  • 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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