 Berkeley
is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California,
United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and
Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community
of Kensington. The eastern city limits coincide with the county line (bordering
Contra Costa County), which generally follows the ridge line of the Berkeley
Hills. Berkeley is located in northern Alameda County.
Berkeley is the site of the
University of California, Berkeley, the oldest of the University of California
system, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It is also home
to the Graduate Theological Union. The city is noted as one of the most
politically liberal in the nation, with one study placing it as the third
most liberal city in the United States. |
