Comtecomté

Comtecomté is a neologism and portmanteau that blends the French terms comté (county) with Comté, the name associated with the cheese produced in the Franche-Comté region. It has no official status and is used mainly in media, tourism, and culinary discourse to evoke a sense of territorial identity and regional products.

The term plays on the dual meaning of comté: the administrative unit (county) in French governance and the historically named Franche-Comté region, as well as the well-known cheese Comté. It is sometimes employed in marketing to signal regional authenticity or in discussions of territorial history.

In circulation, comtecomté often refers loosely to the cultural and economic space linked to Franche-Comté and its surrounding counties in eastern France, with associations to the Jura mountains, cheese production, watchmaking, and rural heritage of the area.

See also: Comté (cheese), Franche-Comté, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Administrative divisions of France.