Berkeley, California | |
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Coordinates: 37°52′18″N 122°16′22″W / 37.87167°N 122.27278°W | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Alameda |
Incorporated | April 4, 1878 [2] |
Chartered | March 5, 1895 [1] |
Government | |
• Type | Council-Manager[1] |
• Mayor | Jesse Arreguín[3] |
• State senator | Nancy Skinner (D)[4] |
• Assemblymember | Buffy Wicks (D)[5] |
• U.S. rep. | Barbara Lee (D)[6] |
Area | |
• Total | 17.66 sq mi (45.73 km2) |
• Land | 10.43 sq mi (27.02 km2) |
• Water | 7.22 sq mi (18.71 km2) 40.83% |
Elevation | 171 ft (52 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 124,321 |
• Rank | |
• Density | 11,917.27/sq mi (4,601.36/km2) |
Demonym | Berkeleyan |
Time zone | UTC−8 (Pacific) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
ZIP codes[9] | 94701–94710, 94712, 94720 |
Area code | 510, 341 |
FIPS code | 06-06000 |
GNIS feature IDs | 1658037, 2409837 |
Website | www |
Berkeley is a city in the U.S. State of California. It is a suburb of San Francisco. It is famous for the college, University of California, Berkeley, where many political protests were held in the 1960s. It is also famous for its gourmet food and art scenes. Also, it is the native city of the punk band Green Day. BOINC or the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing was created at the University of California in Berkeley.
Berkeley is on the San Francisco Bay's eastern shore, north of Oakland. It is in Alameda County.