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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 Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Population
124,321 1
Area (sq km)
45.73 1
Founding Year
1878 1
Population Estimate Year
2020 1
Elevation (m)
52 1
Latitude
37.87167 degrees north 1
Longitude
122.27278 degrees west 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC-08:00 4
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California, States or Territories
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United States, Countries
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University of California, Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.

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Tippett Studio

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Source Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Wikipedia)Lead, headquarters
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in the hills of Berkeley, California, and Oakland, California
Huston Smith

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Quote, lead paragraph
In 1983, he retired from Syracuse and moved to Berkeley, California, where he was a visiting professor of religious studies at the University of California, Berkeley, until his death.
Isaac Bonewits

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He enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1966 and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in magic, perhaps becoming the first and only person known to have ever received any kind of academic degree in magic from an accredited university.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Afterward, she moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, between 1965 and 1967.
Michael Harner

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In 1966, having taught at UC-Berkeley and served as associate director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Harner became a visiting professor at Yale and Columbia University and in 1970 joined the graduate faculty of The New School for Social Research in New York City.
University of California, Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.
University of California, Berkeley

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Sources
1. Berkeley, California (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Berkeley ( BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay (part of the San Fransisco Bay Area) in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
  • Infobox, Population figure
    124,321
  • Lead section
    The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.
  • Infobox: area_total_km2
    45.73
  • Infobox, Elevation
    52 m
  • Infobox, coordinates (latitude)
    37.87167
  • Infobox, coordinates (longitude)
    -122.27278
  • Article text
    On April 1, 1878, the people of Ocean View and the area around the university campus, together with local farmers, were granted incorporation by the State of California as the Town of Berkeley.
  • Associated With: United States, Infobox, Country
    United States
  • Associated With: California, Infobox, State
    California
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2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 37.8717,-122.2728
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 54.0
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 37.75, -122.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 37.75, -122.25
37.75 -122.25 Csb
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4. GeoNames: Berkeley - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 5327684
Quote, cities500 record 5327684
37.87159 -122.27275 P PPL US CA 001 120972 52 55 America/Los_Angeles
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Wikidata: Berkeley
Wikidata Q484678, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
Berkeley (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Northern America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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