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In the Euclidean plane, only three types of regular polygons can tessellate: equilateral triangles, squares, and regular hexagons. This is because their interior angles can perfectly add up to 360 degrees at each vertex. Other regular polygons, such as pentagons or octagons, do not meet this criterion and thus cannot tessellate the plane.

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