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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.
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 ...
11 km (6.84 mi) (standard gauge) The Chemins de fer du Jura is a railway company in the canton of Jura in northwestern Switzerland. It was formed in 1944 from the merger of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont. [1]
Trains still have to reverse in Chambrelien to overcome the difference in altitude between Neuchâtel and Convers. The Compagnie du Jura industriel (Jura industrial, JI) is a former Swiss railway company. It existed from 1857 to 1875 and operated the Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway . The goal of the Jura industriel was to connect ...
Jura wine is French wine produced in the Jura département. Located between Burgundy and Switzerland, this cool climate wine region produces wines with some similarity to Burgundy and Swiss wine. Jura wines are distinctive and unusual wines, the most famous being vin jaune, which is made by a similar process to Sherry, developing under a flor ...
The Jura Foot Line ( French: ligne du Pied-du-Jura, German: Jurafusslinie) or Jura South Foot Line, is a railway line in Switzerland. It runs from Olten along the foot of the southern Jura range through Solothurn, Grenchen, Biel/Bienne, Neuchâtel, Yverdon-les-Bains and Morges to Lausanne. It is one of two routes used by intercity trains ...
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.
Jura ridgeway. The Jura ridgeway is a long-distance hiking trail along the Jura mountain range in Switzerland. It starts in Dielsdorf near Zurich, and follows the crest of the mountain ridge towards the southwest, to finish near Nyon by Lake Geneva . The total distance covered is around 310 km, and can be completed in around 17 or 18 days walking.