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Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté is a region in . This region borders Switzerland and shares much of its architecture, cuisine, and culture with its neighbour.
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is the capital of the department of in the region of . The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with .

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is a town of 15,000 people in Franche-Comté, . is main urban centre of the Haute-Saône department.

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is a town situated in the Jura department of the French region of Franche-Comté.

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is a city in Franche-Comté of . There are several farms and ranches surrounding the town that produce many world famous brands of dairy, beef, and poultry.

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is a modest spectacularly-located village hidden in the deep forested folds of the Doubs department of the Franche-Comte region in Eastern .

Franche-Comté

Latitude of center
47° north
Longitude of center
6° east
Wiki­data ID
Q16394
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Franche-Comté” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Franche-Comté”
  • Albanian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Arabic: “فرانش كونته”
  • Arabic: “فرانش كونتيه”
  • Aragonese: “Franco Condato”
  • Aragonese: “Franco Condau”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրանշ-Կոնտե”
  • Arpitan: “Franche-Comtât”
  • Asturian: “Francu Condáu”
  • Aymara: “Franche-Comté suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Franş-Konte”
  • Basque: “Franche-Comté”
  • Belarusian: “рэгіён Франш-Кантэ”
  • Belarusian: “Франш-Камтэ”
  • Belarusian: “Франш-Кантэ (рэгіён)”
  • Belarusian: “Франш-Кантэ”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রঁশ্‌-কোঁতে”
  • Bosnian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Breton: “Franche-Comté”
  • Bulgarian: “Франш Конте”
  • Catalan: “Franc Comtat”
  • Cebuano: “Franche-Comté”
  • Chechen: “ФгӀанш-Конте”
  • Chinese: “Franche-Comté”
  • Chinese: “弗朗什-孔泰”
  • Chinese: “弗朗什-孔泰大区”
  • Chinese: “法蘭琪-康堤”
  • Chinese: “法蘭琪-康堤大區”
  • Chinese: “自由伯国”
  • Croatian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Czech: “Franche-Comté”
  • Danish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Franche-Comté”
  • Dutch: “Franche-Comte”
  • Dutch: “Franche-Comté”
  • Esperanto: “Franĉkonteo”
  • Estonian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Finnish: “Franche-Comté”
  • French: “Comté”
  • French: “Franche-Comté”
  • Galician: “Franco Condado”
  • Georgian: “ფრანშ-კონტე”
  • German: “Franche-Comté”
  • Greek: “Φρανς-Κοντέ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Franche-Comté”
  • Hebrew: “פראנש-קונטה”
  • Hungarian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Ido: “Franca Komtio”
  • Ido: “Libera Komtio”
  • Indonesian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Interlingua: “Franche-Comté”
  • Irish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Italian: “Franca Contea”
  • Japanese: “フランシュ・コンテ地域圏”
  • Japanese: “フランシュ＝コンテ地域圏”
  • Javanese: “Franche-Comté”
  • Kalaallisut: “Fraintche-Comtè”
  • Kazakh: “Франш-Конте”
  • Korean: “프랑슈콩테”
  • Kurdish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Ladino: “Franko Kondado”
  • Latin: “Liber Comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Franškontē”
  • Limburgan: “Champagne-Ardenne”
  • Lithuanian: “Franš Kontė”
  • Lombard: “Franche-Comté”
  • Luxembourgish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Macedonian: “Франш Конте”
  • Macedonian: “Франш-Конте”
  • Malagasy: “Franche-Comté”
  • Malay: “Franche-Comté”
  • Marathi: “फ्रांश-कोंते”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Franche-Comté”
  • Mingrelian: “ფრანშ-კონტე”
  • Narom: “Fraunche-Coumtaé”
  • Northern Luri: “فرانش کنته”
  • Northern Sami: “Franche-Comté”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Franche-Comté”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Franche-Comté”
  • Norwegian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Franca Comtat”
  • Ossetian: “Франш-Конте”
  • Pampanga: “Franche-Comté”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸ਼-ਕੋਂਤੇ”
  • Persian: “فرانش-کنته”
  • Picard: “Franke-Comtè”
  • Piemontese: “Franca Contà”
  • Polish: “Franche-Comte”
  • Polish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Portuguese: “Franche-Comté”
  • Portuguese: “Franco-Condado”
  • Quechua: “Franche-Comté”
  • Romanian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Russian: “Франш-Конте”
  • Scots: “Franche-Comté”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Franche-Comté”
  • Serbian: “Франш-Конте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Slovak: “Franche-Comté”
  • Slovenian: “Franche-Comté”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرانش-کنته”
  • Spanish: “Franche-Comte”
  • Spanish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Spanish: “Franco Condado”
  • Swahili: “Franche-Comté”
  • Swedish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Swiss German: “Franche-Comté”
  • Thai: “แคว้นฟร็องช์-กงเต”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Turkish: “Franche-Comté”
  • Ukrainian: “Франш-Конте”
  • Urdu: “فرانش-کومتے”
  • Venetian: “Franca Contea”
  • Vietnamese: “Franche-Comté”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Franche-Comté”
  • Welsh: “Franche-Comté”
  • Western Frisian: “Franche-Comté”
  • Western Panjabi: “فرانش-کومتے”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗朗什-孔泰”
  • Yue Chinese: “法蘭琪-康堤”
  • “Franca Cuntèa”

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