The illustration below shows examples of MultiPolygon instances.

As shown in the illustration:

• Figure 1 is a MultiPolygon instance with two Polygon elements. The boundary is defined by the two exterior rings and the three interior rings.
  
• Figure 2 is a MultiPolygon instance with two Polygon elements. The boundary is defined by the two exterior rings and the three interior rings. The two Polygon elements intersect at a tangent point.
  

The following example shows the creation of a geometry MultiPolygon instance and returns the Well-Known Text (WKT) of the second component.

DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = geometry::Parse('MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0, 0 3, 3 3, 3 0, 0 0), (1 1, 1 2, 2 1, 1 1)), ((9 9, 9 10, 10 9, 9 9)))');
SELECT @g.STGeometryN(2).STAsText();

This example instantiates an empty MultiPolygon instance.

DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = geometry::Parse('MULTIPOLYGON EMPTY');

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