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Jura
Coat of arms of the Jura department
Location
Administration
Department number:39
Region: Franche-Comté
Prefecture:Lons-le-Saunier
Subprefectures:Dole
Saint-Claude
Arrondissements:3
Cantons:34
Communes:545
President of the General Council:Gérard Bailly
Statistics
PopulationRanked 79th
 -1999250,857
Population density:50/km
Land area:4999 km
French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km.
Jura is a department in the east of France named after the Jura mountains (not to be confused with the Swiss canton of Jura).

History

Historically, Jura belonged to the Free County of Burgundy, known in French as the Franche-Comté. Dole was the capital until the region was conquered by Louis XIV and it was moved to Besançon. It is now a sous-préfecture of Jura.

As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the southern 2/3 of Jura spoke a dialect of Arpitan language. It continued to be spoken in rural areas into the 20th century.

Jura is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Franche-Comté. The departments of Jura, Doubs, and Haute-Saône form the modern Franche-Comté region of France. The prefecture (capital) is Lons-le-Saunier.

Geography

Jura is one of four departments of the Franche-Comté region and is surrounded by the French departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire, and Ain, as well as the Swiss canton of Vaud on the east.

The Jura mountains are wooded and rolling, not craggy and rocky like the Alps.

Many lakes can be found throughout the Jura - the largest natural lake being Lac De Chalain, measuring 3km long and 1km wide. Lac de Vouglans was formed after the building of a hydro-electric dam. It is one of the largest man-made lakes in France.

Climate

The climate of the Jura varies greatly by elevation. The lower valleys are temperate and pleasant, but the high mountain valleys have bitterly cold winters.

Economy

Jura is a wine-growing region. The Jura wines are very distinctive and unusual wines, such as vin jaune, which is made by a similar process to sherry, developing under a flor of yeast. This is made from the local Savagnin grape variety. Other grape varieties include Poulsard, Trousseau, and Chardonnay.

Tourism

The Jura mountains provide ample opportunities for hiking, skiing, and other winter sports.

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Places named Jura include:
  • Jura, Scotland, Scottish island, in the Inner Hebrides
  • Jura mountains, on the French-Swiss-German border
  • Franconian Jura, the part of the Jura mountains in South Eastern Germany

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Commune of
Lons-le-Saunier

Location
Longitude 05° 33' 16" E
Latitude 46° 40' 31" N

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Arrondissement Lons-le-Saunier
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Dole is a commune in the Jura département in France, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Population (1999): 24,949. It is the largest commune in Jura, although the préfecture (capital) resides in the commune of Lons-le-Saunier.
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Commune of
Saint-Claude

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Location
Longitude 05° 51' 50" E
Latitude 46° 23' 16" N

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The 3 arrondissements of the Jura department are:
  1. Arrondissement of Dole, (subprefecture: Dole) with 10 cantons and 130 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 76,433 in 1990, and was 77,078 in 1999, an increase of 0.84%.

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The following is a list of the 35 cantons of the Jura department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Arrondissement of Dole (11 cantons)

  • Chaumergy
  • Chaussin
  • Chemin
  • Dampierre
  • Dole
  • Dole-Nord-Est
  • Dole-Sud-Ouest
  • Gendrey
  • Montbarrey

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The following is a list of the 545 communes of the Jura département, in France.



INSEE code Postal code Commune
39001 39500 Abergement-la-Ronce
39002 39600 Abergement-le-Grand
39003 39800 Abergement-le-Petit
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4 Rhône 1,646,000 3,249 507
6 Seine-Saint-Denis 1,459,000 236 6,182
8 Yvelines 1,395,000 2,284 611
10 Val-de-Marne 1,279,000 245 5,220
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Jura Mountains is a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each. The range is being continually deformed by mountain building, accommodating the compression from alpine folding as the main Alpine
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Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin) (traditional)[1]
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cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. Historically each canton in the historical confederation was a sovereign state, with its own borders, army and currency until the current federal structure was established in 1848.
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The Republic and Canton of the Jura, also known as the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland. It is the newest (created in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont.
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Free County of Burgundy, in German Freigrafschaft Burgund, was a medieval county (from 867 to 1678 AD), within the traditional province and modern French region Franche-Comté, whose very French name is still reminiscent of the unusual title of its count: Freigraf ('free
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Dole is a commune in the Jura département in France, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Population (1999): 24,949. It is the largest commune in Jura, although the préfecture (capital) resides in the commune of Lons-le-Saunier.
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