Tancua

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Coordinates: 46°31′32″N 5°58′48″E / 46.5255555556, 5.98

Commune of Tancua
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Saint-Claude
Canton	Morez
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Haut Jura
Mayor	The mayor of Morbier
Statistics
Elevation	620 m–1 110 m (avg. 889 m)
Land area¹	6,74 km²
Population² (1999)	167
- Density	24/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	(Morbier) 39367 (Morbier)/ 39400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Tancua is a village in the French department of Jura in the region of Franche-Comté. Formerly a separate municipality, it was merged with Morbier on January 1, 2007. Its inhabitants are known as Quewans.

Tancua was until well into the 20th century, mainly agricultural, especially for livestock breeding and dairy farming, with somewhat of a logging industry.

[edit] Demographics

Date of Population

1793 1800 1806 1820 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 205 219 219 - - 211 222 213 205 190

1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 194 194 191 188 177 159 156 137 123

1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 123 178 303 120 116 93 87 86 120

1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 - - 102 109 88 149 158 167 151 - - For the census of 1962 to 1999 the official population corresponds with the population without duplicates according to the INSEE.