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Mettembert
Juravillage
Total population
114
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Mettembert is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
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History
Mettembert is first mentioned in 1170 as Mettenbere. In 1208 it was mentioned as Mettenberg. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Mittemberg, however, that name is no longer used.
Geography
Mettembert has an area of . Of this area, or 40.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 53.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 51.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.2% is used for growing crops and 10.8% is pastures and 11.6% is used for alpine pastures. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the exposed side of a small valley north-west of Delemont.
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Nearby places in Jura
- Movelier0.8 mi away · pop. 376
- Pleigne1.5 mi away · pop. 353
- Ederswiler2 mi away · pop. 120
- Soyhières2.3 mi away · pop. 483
- Delémont2.9 mi away · pop. 11,809
- Develier3.2 mi away · pop. 1,385
- Bourrignon3.6 mi away · pop. 261
- Courroux3.7 mi away · pop. 3,134
- Rossemaison3.8 mi away · pop. 585
- Courtételle3.9 mi away · pop. 2,459
- Courfaivre4.7 mi away · pop. 1,600
- Courrendlin4.7 mi away · pop. 2,595
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 6716
- Population (Wikidata)
- 107
- Wikidata
- Q68017
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771