Jura

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Places named Jura include:

• Jura, Scotland, Scottish island, in the Inner Hebrides
• Jura mountains, on the French-Swiss-German border
  • Franconian Jura, the part of the Jura mountains in South Eastern Germany
• Jura (department), a department in France
• Canton of Jura, Switzerland
• Bernese Jura, a region in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland
• Jura, Afghanistan
• Jura, Transnistria, a village in Transnistria, Moldova
• Al-Jura, a former village in pre-1948 Palestine near Ashkelon.

Rivers named Jura include:

• Jūra, river in Lithuania
• Jura River (Papua New Guinea), river near Agaun
• Jura River (California), now dry river, formerly contained gold
• Jura River (Paris), mythological river