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42 Examples of Square Things

John Spacey, January 16, 2023

Square things are things with four equal length sides and four right angles. There are also many form factors that include a square such as cubes that are bounded by six square faces. Squares are rare in nature but do appear as crystalline structures such as crystal pyrite, salt and sugar. They are also a somewhat common shape for human designed items as they are symmetrical and have several useful applications. For example, square boxes are an efficient shape for boxing round things. The following are illustrative examples of square things.

Borg Cubes (fictional spacecraft)	Bread Slices
Building Blocks	CD Cases
Checker Boards	Chess Boards
Chocolate Squares	Coasters
Crackers & Biscuits	Cube Shaped Buildings
Cube Shaped Electronics e.g. speakers	Days on a Calendar
Dessert Squares / Bars	Dice
Favicons	Floppy Disks
Fruit Cubes	Graph Paper Grids
Keyboard Keys (usually rounded squares)	Minecraft Blocks
Mineral Crystals e.g. Pyrite Crystal	Napkins
Origami Paper	Pizza Boxes
Ring Boxes	Rubiks Cubes
Salt Crystals	Sandwiches
Square Boxes - often used for round objects	Square Chocolates
Square Clocks	Square Cobblestones
Square Cushions	Square Cut Gems
Square Rooms	Stamps
Sugar Crystals	Sugar Cubes
Tiles	Toast
Waffles	Window Panes