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What Is an Octagon?

An octagon is a flat shape with 8 sides and 8 corners. Octagons can be regular or irregular.

Octagon

Sides and Vertices

The sides are also called segments. They are shown in purple in the image below. The vertices are the corners where two sides meet, shown in red.

Octagon: sides, segments and vertices

More About the Octagon

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