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Bourrignon
Summary
Bourrignon is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Bourrignon is first mentioned in 1136 as Borognuns. In 1295 it was mentioned as Burgis. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Bürkis, however, that name is no longer used.
Bourrignon has an area of . Of this area, or 65.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.9%. Out of the forested land, 29.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 24.0% is used for growing crops and 17.2% is pastures and 23.8% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on a terrace on the northern slope of the Les Rangiers mountain chain.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, from a Base Vert issuant a Castle Sable with two stories both embattled, first towered in sinister and second in dexter.
Bourrignon has a population () of . , 2.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -7.5%. Migration accounted for -10.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 2%.
Most of the population () speaks French (268 or 93.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (14 or 4.9%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (3 or 1.0%).
the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 133 Swiss men (47.2% of the population) and 2 (0.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 142 Swiss women (50.4%) and 5 (1.8%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 179 or about 62.6% were born in Bourrignon and lived there in 2000. There were 61 or 21.3% who were born in the same canton, while 31 or 10.
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