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Encyclopedia > Delémont
Delémont
Canton Jura
District Delémont
Coordinates  47°22′ N 7°21′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=47_22_N_7_21_E_region:CH_type:city(11,392))
Postal code 2800
Population 11,392   (December 2003)
Area 22.03 km²
Elevation 435 m
Mayor
Website www.delemont.ch

Delémont is a Swiss city, capital of the Canton of Jura. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Canton of Jura is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the northwestern part of Switzerland. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for December, 2003. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... For other uses of the word, see Elevation In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The Canton of Jura is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the northwestern part of Switzerland. ...


Delémont hosts the Parliament and Government of the canton, as well as the Jurassic museum. The Jurassic period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 195 million years BP at the end of the Triassic to 135 million years BP at the beginning of the Cretaceous. ...


External links

  • http://www.jura.ch/musees/arthist.htm (in French)
  • http://www.delemont.ch

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