Jura
Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. It's 30 miles long by 7 miles wide, with a population of only 196 in 2011. It has poor boggy soil and three conical hills known as the Paps of Jura.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Jura
- Type: Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56° northLongitude
-5.9° or 5° 54′ westElevation
837 feet (255 metres)Open location code
9C8P232X+2XGeoNames ID
2645940
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Swedish—“Jura” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Diùra”
- Breton: “Jura”
- Dutch: “Jura”
- French: “Jura”
- German: “Isle of Jura”
- Japanese: “ジュラ島”
- Low German: “Jura”
- Spanish: “Jura”
- Swedish: “Jura”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jura”. Photo: Bjarne Henning Kvaal…, CC BY-SA 3.0.