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What is the difference between point and multipoint ? linestring and multilinestring ? polygon and multipolygon ? In PostGIS

What is the secret behind defining "Multi" shapes?

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"Multi" means, that several objects of that kind are "grouped" together to single object. For example, imagine Philippines. That country consists of lot of islands - you can't draw it with single polygon; and it would be inconvenient to store it as several different database rows, each containing single polygon.

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