Doubs

Doubs [ you ], officially Département du Doubs, a French department of atomic number 25, is it lies to the east of the country in the region of Franche -Comté and is named after the Doubs River. The department covers an area of ​​5233 km ² and has 529,103 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011).

Geography

The Doubs is bordered to the north by the department of Haute- Saône, in the far northeast of the Territoire de Belfort, in the east and southeast to the Swiss cantons of Jura, Neuchâtel and Vaud and in the west of the Jura.

The most important river in the department is the eponymous Doubs.

Coat of arms

Description: Blue and Gold by wave cut split crest is above a growing golden lion with crown, red tongue and claws between seeded golden shingles and down a blue wave beams.

Cities

The most populous communities of the Doubs department are:

Administrative divisions

The Doubs is divided into three arrondissements and cantons 35 and 594 communes: