Polygon

A closed plane figure for which all sides are line segments. The name of a polygon describes the number of sides. A polygon which has all sides mutually congruent and all angles mutually congruent is called a regular polygon.

 

Number of sides	Polygon name	pentagon regular undecagon octagon
3	triangle
4	quadrilateral
5	pentagon
6	hexagon
7	heptagon
8	octagon
9	nonagon
10	decagon
11	undecagon
12	dodecagon
n	n-gon

 

See also

Area of a regular polygon, area of a convex polygon