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Lake Neuchatel is situated at the foot of the Jura mountain range, on the Swiss Plateau. Mainly in the French-speaking Swiss Romande , it borders the territory of four cantons: Neuchâtel (86 km 2 (33 sq mi)), Vaud (74 km 2 (29 sq mi)), Fribourg (53 km 2 (20 sq mi)) and Bern (2 km 2 (0.77 sq mi)).
The Neo-Latin name for Neuchâtel is the Greek-derived Neocomum, [19] [9] and this gives the adjective neocomensis which appears on the seal of the University of Neuchâtel [9] (in Universitas Neocomensis Helvetiorum) and the English adjective Neocomian, a term for a former stratigraphic stage of the Early Cretaceous. [20]
La Tène is a protohistoric archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland.Dating to the second part of the European Iron Age it is the type site of the La Tène culture, which dates to about 450 BCE to the 1st century BCE and extends from Ireland to Anatolia and from Portugal to Czechia.
The two most extensive, Lake Geneva and Lake Constance, are amongst the largest in Europe and mark the border of the Swiss Plateau, along with the Alps and the Jura Mountains. The largest wholly Swiss lake is Lake Neuchâtel. The remaining lakes over 100 km 2 (39 sq mi) are Lake Maggiore and Lake Lucerne. In total 103 lakes exist that are more ...
The town is built on moraines on the west side of the Lake of Neuchâtel near where the Gransonnet brook flows into the lake. It is at the foot of the Jura Mountains in the northern-central part of the canton of Vaud. The territory of the municipality rises quite steeply from the shores of the lake to about 500 m (1,600 ft) on the plateau.
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Seeland region in Switzerland Borders of the Bernese administrative district. Seeland (lit.:Lakeland, also German: Drei-Seen-Land, French: Pays des trois lacs) is a region in Switzerland, at the south-eastern foot of the mountain range of the Jura Mountains containing the 3 Lakes of Morat, Neuchâtel, and Bienne (Biel).