Surface area

The surface area of a parallelepiped is the sum of the areas of the bounding parallelograms:

(For labeling: see previous section.)

Special cases by symmetry

*The parallelepiped with O_h symmetry is known as a cube, which has six congruent square faces.
*The parallelepiped with D_4h symmetry is known as a square cuboid, which has two square faces and four congruent rectangular faces.
*The

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