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Jura (/ ˈ (d) ʒ ʊər ə / JOOR-ə, ZHOOR-ə, French: ⓘ) [needs Arpitan IPA] is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the Jura Mountains, its prefecture is Lons-le-Saunier. Its subprefectures are Dole and Saint-Claude. In 2019, Jura had a population of 259,199. Its INSEE code is 39.
Visitors. 71,000 population. Governing body. Fédération des parcs naturels régionaux de France. Website. www .parc-haut-jura .fr /index _uk .php. Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura ( Jura Mountains Regional Natural Park) is a French regional natural park located in the southwest of the Jura Mountain Range in France, on the French-Swiss border.
The Fortified Sector of the Jura ( Secteur Fortifiée du Jura) was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the French frontier with Switzerland in the general area of Besançon. The area was lightly fortified, since the Swiss border was regarded as a low-risk frontier, save for the possibility of an advance from Germany through ...
The 3 arrondissements of the Jura department are: [1] Arrondissement of Dole, ( subprefecture: Dole) with 190 communes. [2] The population of the arrondissement was 83,474 in 2013. Arrondissement of Lons-le-Saunier, ( prefecture of the Jura department: Lons-le-Saunier) with 249 communes. [3] The population of the arrondissement was 125,876 in 2013.
Poligny (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. The town stands at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura region, with limestone cliffs rising to its east and south, and a steephead valley leading to the village of Vaux-sur-Poligny to the east. On the cliffs to the east ...
Cantons of the Jura department. The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Jura department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Arbois. Authume. Bletterans.
Saint-Aubin, Jura. / 47.0331°N 5.3311°E / 47.0331; 5.3311. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Aubin ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿obɛ̃] ⓘ) is a village and commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in ...
The following is a list of the 494 communes of the Jura department of France . The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Espace Communautaire Lons Agglomération. Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dole. Communauté de communes Arbois, Poligny, Salins – Cœur du Jura.