Fontenais
Fontenais is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy (district), Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of Fontenais.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 9 February 2013

History

Fontenais is first mentioned in 1148 as ''Fonteneis''.

Geography

Fontenais has an area of . Of this area, or 48.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 43.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land.
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Porrentruy (district)
Porrentruy District (, ) is one of the three districts of the canton of Jura, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Porrentruy. The French language, French-speaking district has a population of (as of ). Municipalities Porrentruy is divided into a total of 20 municipalities of Switzerland, municipalities: Coat of arms The blazon of the district coat of arms is ''Gules a Fess Argent, overall a Cockatrice Or volant holding in legs and beak a Crosier of the same.'' Demographics Porrentruy has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French language, French (22,008 or 91.8%) as their first language, German language, German is the second most common (1,001 or 4.2%) and Italian language, Italian is the third (306 or 1.3%). There are 8 people who speak Romansh language, Romansh. , the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 10,585 Swiss men (43.7% of the population) and 1,243 (5.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 11,322 Swiss women (46. ...
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