page_title: Romont
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Romont / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Romont (FR): Aussicht
context_page_description: Romont is a municipality and capital of the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Romont has an area, as of 2009, of 10.9 square kilometers (4.2 sq mi).  Of this area, 7.32 km² (2.83 sq mi) or 67.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.48 km² (0.57 sq mi) or 13.6% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 2.07 km² (0.80 sq mi) or 19.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km² (7.4 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.1%.  Power and water infrastructure, as well as other special developed areas, made up 1.6% of the area  Out of the forested land, 12.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 37.9% is used for growing crops and 28.2% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is the capital of the Glâne district.  It is located at the intersection of the roads to Fribourg, Lausanne and Bulle and is on the border with the Canton of Vaud.
caption: Farmland around Romont
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