Berkeley (/ˈbÉœË rkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of
San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. 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 2010 census recorded a population
of 112,580.Berkeley (/ˈbÉœË rkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern
shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. 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 2010 census recorded a
population of 112,580.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 liberal
cities in the United States.The site of today's City of Berkeley was
the territory of the Chochenyo/Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when
the first Europeans arrived. Evidence of their existence in the area
include pits in rock formations, which they used to grind acorns, and
a shellmound, now mostly leveled and covered up, along the shoreline
of San Francisco Bay at the mouth of Strawberry Creek. Other artifacts
were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of
a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek.[citation
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