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What Is a Pentagon?

A pentagon is a flat shape with 5 straight sides and 5 corners. It can be regular (all sides equal) or irregular (sides of different lengths).

Pentagon

Sides and Vertices

The sides are also called segments. In the image below they are shown in purple. The vertices are the points where two sides meet, shown in red.

Pentagon: sides and vertices

More About the Pentagon

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