Jura may refer to:

Places

Jura, Scotland Jura ( ; ) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and northeast of Islay. With an area of , and 196 inhabitants recorded in the 2011 census, Jura is more sparsely populated than Islay, and is one of the least densely populat ...

, island of the Inner Hebrides off Great Britain * Jūra, river in Lithuania

Mountain ranges

Jura Mountains The Jura Mountains ( ) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper (" folded Jura", ) is located in France and Switzerla ...

, on the French–Swiss–German border *

Franconian Jura The Franconian Jura ( , , or ) is an upland in Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Located between two rivers, the Danube in the south and the Main in the north, its peaks reach elevations of up to and it has an area of some 7053.8 km2. Emil Mey ...

, south-central Germany *

Swabian Jura The Swabian Jura ( , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of Swabia. It is part of th ...

, south-western Germany *

Table Jura The so-called Table Jura or Plateau Jura (; ) is the northeastern extension of the Jura Mountains. It stands in opposition to the folded Jura () of the Jura range proper. The Table Jura stretches across the Swiss cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Aa ...

, north-eastern part of Jura Mountains *

Montes Jura Montes Jura is a mountain range in the northwest part of the near side of the Moon. The selenographic coordinates of this range are 47.1° N 34.0° W. It has a diameter of 422 km, with mountains rising to approximately 3800m above the level ...

, on the Moon near Mare Imbrium

Regions

Jura (department) Jura ( , ) is a department in the eastern 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. In 2019, Jura had a pop ...

, France *

Canton of Jura The Republic and Canton of Jura (officially in ), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura ( ; ), is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shar ...

, Switzerland *

Bernese Jura Bernese Jura (, , German: Berner Jura) is the name for the French-speaking area of the Switzerland, Swiss canton of Bern, and from 2010 one of ten Administrative divisions of Switzerland, administrative divisions of the Cantons of Switzerland, cant ...

, part of the Swiss canton of Bern *

Polish Jura Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

, an upland of southern Poland

Villages

* Jura, Ontario, Canada *

Jura, Transnistria Jura (Moldovan Cyrillic, Russian and , ) is a village in the Rîbnița District of Moldova. It has since 1990 been administered as a part of the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR). History Żura, as it was known in Polish, ...

, Moldova *

Al-Jura Al-Jura () was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located immediately adjacent to the towns of Ashkelon and the ruins of ancient Ascalon. In 1945, the village had a population of approximately 2,420 mostl ...

, Mandatory Palestine * Al-Jura, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine

Companies and organisations

* Jura Books, anarchist bookshop in Sydney, Australia *

Jura distillery Jura distillery is Island single malt single malt Scotch, Scotch whisky distillery located on the island of Jura, Scotland, Jura in the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. The distillery is operated by Whyte & Mackay, which Philippi ...

, Scotch whisky distillery on the island of Jura *

Jura Elektroapparate Jura Elektroapparate AG is a Swiss developer and distributor of home appliances, mainly espresso machines, headquartered in Niederbuchsiten, Canton of Solothurn. The company was founded in 1931 by Leo Henzirohs. Formerly, Jura ran its own fact ...

, Swiss developer and distributor of home appliances *

Jura Federation The Jura Federation () represented the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the First International during the anti-statist split from the organization. The Canton of Jura, a Swiss area, was known for its watchmaker artisans in La Chaux-de-Fonds, w ...

, the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the 19th century First International

People

* Jura (given name), Slavic masculine name * Jura (Brazilian footballer) (born 1971 as Jurandir Fatori), Brazilian football player * Chuck Jura (born 1950), American basketball player * Hubert Jura (born 1916), Polish soldier

Ships

* ''Jura'' (ship, 1854), steamship on Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Lake Constance * ''Jura'' (ship, 2006), vessel of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency

Other uses

Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 143.1 Mya. ...

, a geological period * Jura, or iura, plural of jus (or ''ius''), in Roman law *

Jura wine Jura wine is French wine produced in the Jura '' département''. Located between Burgundy and Switzerland, this cool climate wine region produces wines with some similarity to Burgundy and Swiss wine. Jura wines are distinctive and unusual wi ...

, a French wine region * ''Jūra'' (The Sea), name of a symphonic poem for orchestra by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis * Jura, or the Great Forest of Jura, the fictional setting for the light novel, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime