Regular Polygon Calculator

Area, perimeter, radii and angles for any regular n-gon.

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Works for any regular n-gon — triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and beyond. Set the number of sides, tell the tool whether you know a side length, a radius, or the area, and it derives every other property: area, perimeter, circumradius, inradius (apothem), and the interior and exterior angles.

How it works

A regular polygon with n sides of length s has these exact relationships, which the tool uses:

  • Perimeter = n × s
  • Area = ¼ × n × s² × cot(π/n) — equivalently ½ × perimeter × apothem
  • Circumradius (R) = s ÷ (2 × sin(π/n))
  • Inradius / apothem (r) = s ÷ (2 × tan(π/n))
  • Interior angle = (n − 2) × 180 ÷ n degrees
  • Exterior angle = 360 ÷ n degrees

If you supply a radius or the area instead of the side, the tool inverts the matching formula to recover the side length, then computes everything else from it.

Example

A regular hexagon (n = 6) with side 10:

  • Perimeter = 6 × 10 = 60
  • Area = ¼ × 6 × 100 × cot(30°) = 150 × √3 ≈ 259.81
  • Circumradius = 10 ÷ (2 × sin 30°) = 10
  • Apothem = 10 ÷ (2 × tan 30°) ≈ 8.66
  • Interior angle = (6 − 2) × 180 ÷ 6 = 120°
  • Exterior angle = 360 ÷ 6 = 60°
Sides (n)Interior angleExterior angle
3 (triangle)60°120°
4 (square)90°90°
5 (pentagon)108°72°
6 (hexagon)120°60°
8 (octagon)135°45°

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