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## Polygon

A class for drawing polygon overlays on a map. Extends Polyline. Use Map#addLayer to add it to the map.

Note that points you pass when creating a polygon shouldn't have an additional last point equal to the first one — it's better to filter out such points.

### Creation

Factory | Description
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`L.polygon( <LatLng[]> latlngs, <Polyline options> options? )` | Instantiates a polygon object given an array of geographical points and optionally an options object (the same as for Polyline). You can also create a polygon with holes by passing an array of arrays of latlngs, with the first latlngs array representing the exterior ring while the remaining represent the holes inside.

### Methods

Polygon has the same options and methods as Polyline, with the following differences:

Method | Returns | Description
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`toGeoJSON()` | `Object` | Returns a GeoJSON representation of the polygon (GeoJSON Polygon Feature).