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The Franche-Comté is an administrative region of France. 
She is formed of departments :

- du Doubs (25)  484 300 h
- du Jura (39)  248 600 h
- de la Haute-Saône (70) 229 500 h
et du Territoire de Belfort (90)  134 200 h

The County seat is Besançon 
The Prefecture of region is situated to Besançon. 
The surface is 16 202 km². 
Population of 1 096 600 inhabitants. 
Inhabitants are the Franc-Comtois.


TO KNOW

Citroên and Peugeot regroup their stores 
of pieces detached to Vesoul, within only one unit. 
Besançon is the European pole of microtechniqueses. 
One finds more than 1 000 enterprises in the region. 
International agreement illustration. 
The Mecatronics convention must happen alternately to Besançon and Japan.

GEOGRAPHY

Her border with Switzerland is the Mountain. 
It is the reason for which she seems responsible of what the region is discerned like excentered. 
However, it is a zone of passage between space rhénan and the valley of the Rhone..

The Franche-Comté is formed of three distinct wholes :

- The first is the big plains of the Haute-Saône. They have an agriculture traditionally to basis of cereals. 

- The second is mountains and trays of the jurassien massive. 
It is a country of forests and raising milkman. 
Winters are very rigorous. One records the record of cold weather. 
They obliged the population peasant to have a complementary artisanal activity to subsist. 
This handicraft sometimes altered. He organized himself. 
He was to the origin of the small industrious city flight. They specialized as Morez that became the capital of the glasses or Saint-Claude of the pipe. 

- The third is the valley of the Doubs. She prolongs herself by pierced it of Belfort. 
The climate is there more lenient. It permits the growth of the vineyard as in the Arbois. 
The Franche-Comté is a region of passage. 
It is to the origin of centers as Dole, Lons-the-Saunier or Besançon, of which the role of regional capital is undisputed on the tertiary plan.