because it has two pairs of congruent sides, the diagonals are equal in length, and the diagonals bisect each other.
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no, but a square can be called a rectangle.
it means that a square is not a rectangle
A rectangle is a shape with 4 sides and for right angles. A rectangle can be called a square. A square, on the other hand, has 4 EQUAL sides and 4 right angles. Therefore, a square cannot be called a rectangle since the rectangle has UNEQUAL sides.
Sure. It's called a "square"; you can consider the square a special case of a rectangle.
It is called a square or a rectangle, however a rectangle is just a streched square.