This polyhedron has 9 faces (2 bases and 7 sides), 21 edges, and 14 vertices.

[1][2] The area of a right heptagonal prism with height

is given by:[1] The volume is found by taking the area of the base, with a side length of

, giving the formula:[1] This formula also works for the oblique prism due to the Cavalieri's principle.

The heptagonal prism can also be seen as a tiling on a sphere: