Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.
It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of
Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills.
The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.
Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California System, the University of California, Berkeley,
and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university. It also has the
Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world.
Berkeley is considered one of the most socially progressive cities in the United States.
Geography
Berkeley is located at 37°52′18″N 122°16′29″W (37.871775, −122.274603).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city’s 17.7-square-mile (46 km2) area includes 10.5 square miles (27 km2)
of land and 7.2 square miles (19 km2) (40.83%) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.
Berkeley borders the cities of Albany, Oakland, and Emeryville and Contra Costa County, including unincorporated Kensington,
as well as San Francisco Bay.
Berkeley lies within telephone area code 510 (until September 2, 1991, Berkeley was part of the 415 telephone code that
now covers only San Francisco and Marin counties), and the postal ZIP codes are 94701 through 94710, 94712,
and 94720 for the University of California campus.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California
Author: Kirill Shrayber, Ph.D.