The hexagonal prism has six sides that are rectangles.
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There are 2 hexagonal faces: the top and the bottom. All the other 6 are rectangles (or squares, depending on the height of the prism).
An octahedron shape is one which has 8 faces. Since it is a prism it must be a hexagonal prism (2 hexagons and 6 rectangles = 8 faces). And a hexagonal prism has 2*6 = 12 vertices.
A hexagonal prism is a polyhedron. Many hexagonal prisms are polyhedra.
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