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Place Name
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Berkeley
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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102,724 (1990)
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Location
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Alameda County, California (CA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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37°52'N
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Longitude
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122°18'W
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Berkeley
, city (1990 pop. 102,724), Alameda co., W
Calif., suburb 4 mi/6.4 km N of downtown
Oakland, adjoins Oakland, on the E shore of San Francisco Bay;
37°52'N 122°18'W. Mfg. (lab instruments, fabricated metal prods.,
construction materials, machinery, chemicals, consumer goods, printing
ink, vitreous china, electronic equip., biological prods., copper
artwork, foods, medical instruments; printing and publishing, metal
smelting, electroplating; iron foundry, winery [sake]). Originally
part of the Rancho San Antonio granted to the Peralta family in 1820 by
the Span. crown, the site was purchased by Americans in 1853. The
settlement, at first called Oceanview, was named Berkeley in 1866. The
city's pop. increased significantly after the San Francisco earthquake
of 1906. Seat of a campus of the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley and
several divinity schools. The campus of the former was a center for
student unrest and the “counterculture” movement throughout the
1960s and early 1970s. Points of interest in Berkeley include a marina;
Tilden Park; Univ. Mus.; Lawrence Hall of Science; Berkeley Aquatic
Park; and Armstrong Col. (1918). Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, an
atomic research center, is nearby. Berkeley Hills to NE; Charles L.
Tilden Regional Park to N. Inc. 1878.
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