Geography
Bullet has an area, as of 2009, of 16.83 square kilometres (6.50 sq mi). Of this area, 8.01 km2 (3.09 sq mi) or 47.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.84 km2 (3.03 sq mi) or 46.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.89 km2 (0.34 sq mi) or 5.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.11 km2 (27 acres) or 0.7% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 38.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 8.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.0% is used for growing crops and 14.6% is pastures and 32.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
The municipality was part of the Grandson District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Bullet became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
The municipality is located in the Vaudois Jura. The town lies on the end moraine of the ice age era Rhone glacier. It consists of the village of Bullet (elevation 1,143 m (3,750 ft)) and the hamlets of Les Rasses, Les Cluds, La Crochère, Les Crosats and La Frétaz.
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