To view information about a geometry, print it. To access the information
programmatically, Earth Engine provides several methods. For example, to get information
about the polygon created previously, use:
Observe that the perimeter (or length) of a geometry is returned in meters and the
area is returned in square meters unless a projection is specified. By default, the
computation is performed on the WGS84 spheroid and the result is computed in meters or
square meters.
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