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Soyhières
Juravillage
Total population
483
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Soyhières is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
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History
Soyhières is first mentioned in 1102 as Sougere. In 1136 it was mentioned as Sohires and in 1212 as Sogron. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Saugern; however, that name is no longer used.
Geography
Soyhières has an area of . Of this area, or 30.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 61.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.2% of the area Out of the forested land, 58.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 10.9% is used for growing crops and 6.1% is pastures and 12.1% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.3% is in lakes and 0.4% is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the banks of the Birs river. It consists of the village of Soyhières on the left bank of the Birs and the hamlet of Les Riedes-Dessus on the right.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Wildlife & biodiversity
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Notable people from here
Nearby places in Jura
- Delémont2.1 mi away · pop. 11,809
- Courroux2.1 mi away · pop. 3,134
- Mettembert2.3 mi away · pop. 114
- Movelier2.8 mi away · pop. 376
- Ederswiler3 mi away · pop. 120
- Rossemaison3.3 mi away · pop. 585
- Courrendlin3.5 mi away · pop. 2,595
- Vicques3.5 mi away
- Pleigne3.8 mi away · pop. 353
- Courtételle4.2 mi away · pop. 2,459
- Develier4.3 mi away · pop. 1,385
- Châtillon JU4.5 mi away · pop. 452
Geography & sun
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
- 6724
- Population (Wikidata)
- 433
- Wikidata
- Q70414
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771