Jura
Jura is a department in the northeastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The department takes its name from the Jura Mountains. Its prefecture is Lons-le-Saunier; subprefectures are Dole and Saint-Claude.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of France with 260,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Jura (department)”
- Neighbors: Côte-d’Or, Saône-et-Loire, and Vaud
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église de la Sainte-Trinité de La Marre and Église de l’Assomption-de-la-Vierge de Bonnefontaine.
Église de la Sainte-Trinité de La Marre
Church
Photo: Espirat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église de la Sainte-Trinité de La Marre is a church.
Église de l’Assomption-de-la-Vierge de Bonnefontaine
Church
Photo: Kajimoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église de l’Assomption-de-la-Vierge de Bonnefontaine is a church.
Église Saints-Ferréol-et-Ferjeux de Fay-en-Montagne
Church
Photo: PRA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Saints-Ferréol-et-Ferjeux de Fay-en-Montagne is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bonnefontaine and La Marre.
Bonnefontaine
Village
Bonnefontaine is a commune in Jura, a department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
La Marre
Village
Photo: Espirat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Marre is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Picarreau
Village
Photo: Spielvogel, CC0.
Picarreau is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Jura
- Location: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Jura from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Jura” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Jura”
- Albanian: “Jura”
- Arabic: “جورا”
- Aragonese: “Jura”
- Armenian: “Ժուրա”
- Armenian: “Յուրա”
- Arpitan: “Jura”
- Asturian: “Jura”
- Azerbaijani: “Yura (departament)”
- Azerbaijani: “Yura”
- Basque: “Jura”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Юра”
- Belarusian: “Юра (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Юра (дэпартамэнт)”
- Belarusian: “Юра”
- Bengali: “জুরা”
- Breton: “Jura”
- Bulgarian: “Жура”
- Catalan: “Jura”
- Cebuano: “Département du Jura”
- Cebuano: “Jura”
- Chechen: “ЖуьгӀа (департамент)”
- Chechen: “ЖуьгӀа”
- Chinese: “Jura”
- Chinese: “侏羅省”
- Chinese: “汝拉省”
- Chuvash: “Юра”
- Czech: “Jura”
- Danish: “Jura”
- Dutch: “Jura (departement)”
- Dutch: “Jura”
- Esperanto: “Jura”
- Estonian: “Jura departemang”
- Finnish: “Jura”
- French: “Département du Jura”
- French: “Jura”
- Galician: “Departamento de Jura”
- Galician: “Jura”
- Georgian: “იურა”
- Georgian: “იურის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Département Jura”
- German: “Jura”
- Greek: “Ζυρά”
- Gujarati: “જુરા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Jura”
- Hebrew: “ז’ורה”
- Hindi: “ज़ुरा”
- Hungarian: “Jura”
- Indonesian: “Jura”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Jura”
- Irish: “Jura”
- Italian: “Giura”
- Italian: “Jura”
- Japanese: “ジュラ県”
- Kannada: “ಜೂರಾ”
- Kazakh: “Юра”
- Kongo: “Jura”
- Korean: “쥐라주”
- Ladin: “Jura”
- Ladino: “Jura”
- Latin: “Iura”
- Latvian: “Jura”
- Limburgan: “Jura”
- Lithuanian: “Jura”
- Lombard: “Jura”
- Low German: “Jura”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Jura”
- Macedonian: “Жира”
- Macedonian: “Јура”
- Malagasy: “Jura”
- Malay: “Jura”
- Marathi: “श्युरॅ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jura”
- Northern Frisian: “Jura (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Jura”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jura (departement)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Jura”
- Norwegian: “Jura”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Jura”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jura”
- Ossetian: “Юра (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Юра”
- Pampanga: “Jura”
- Persian: “ژورا”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Jura”
- Polish: “Jura”
- Portuguese: “Jura”
- Romanian: “departamentul Jura”
- Romanian: “Jura”
- Russian: “Юра”
- Scots: “Jura”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Jura”
- Serbian: “Жира”
- Serbian: “Јура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jura”
- Sinhala: “ජුරා”
- Slovak: “Jura”
- Slovenian: “Jura”
- Spanish: “Jura”
- Swahili: “Jura”
- Swedish: “Jura”
- Swiss German: “Département Jura”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Юра”
- Tamil: “ஜூரா”
- Telugu: “జూరా”
- Thai: “จังหวัดฌูว์รา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Jura”
- Turkish: “Jura, Fransa”
- Turkish: “Jura”
- Ukrainian: “Жура”
- Urdu: “جورا”
- Urdu: “ژوغا”
- Uzbek: “Jura (departament)”
- Uzbek: “Jura”
- Venetian: “Jura”
- Vietnamese: “Jura, Franche-Comté”
- Vietnamese: “Jura”
- Vlaams: “Jura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jura”
- Welsh: “Jura”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع جورا”
- Wu Chinese: “汝拉省”
- Yue Chinese: “侏羅省”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Jura”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as La Marre and Fay-en-Montagne.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Forêt de l’Heute and Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Baume-les-Messieurs.
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