Mathematical word for geometrical object?

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Is there a mathematical word to designate the concept of a geometrical object like:

  • square
  • cube
  • tesseract
  • N-dimensional cube
  • circle
  • sphere
  • hypersphere
  • regular and non-regular polygons
  • regular and non-regular polyhedrons
  • ...

What is the common word to designate all these objects ?

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They are all compact subsets of suitable $\mathbb R^n$. I would call them manifolds in a broad sense, considering both the cases "manifold with corners"-"manifold without corners" (but with boundary).