What is the difference between area and perimeter?

This is the perimetreter. The difference between perimeter and area is perimeter is the outside of the shape or building or anything really, even a farm paddock has a perimeter and area  

 This shape has an area of 25 metres squared. We used the site Maths dictonary for kids

 This part is showing you all the angles of perimeter so you can figure out the angles using a protractor

 This is another part showing the perimeter what do you think the anwers are? Add them in your comment.

To worrk out area you do lenth X width for an example 3 lengh and 5 width.