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Jura is one of eight départements of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and is surrounded by the French départements 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 .
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] The lines extend for a total of 84.8 kilometres (52.7 mi) of which just over 73 ...
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 Republic and Canton of Jura ( French: République et canton du Jura ), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura ( / ˈ ( d) ʒʊərə / JOOR-ə, ZHOOR-ə, French: [ʒyʁa] ⓘ ), [needs Arpitan IPA] is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shares borders with the canton of Basel-Landschaft ...
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.
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.
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 arrondissement of Dole is an arrondissement of France in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It has 190 communes. [2] Its population is 106,246 (2016), and its area is 1,769.5 km 2 (683.2 sq mi). [3]