docs/api/sql/geography/Geography-Functions/ST_Intersects.md

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# ST_Intersects

Introduction: Tests whether two geography objects intersect on the sphere using S2 spherical boolean operations. Returns `true` if `A` and `B` share any portion of space (including a single boundary point), and `false` if they are fully disjoint.

Edges are interpreted as great-circle arcs, so the test is correct even when geographies cross the antimeridian or wrap around the poles — situations where a planar `ST_Intersects` would be wrong.

Polygon ring roles follow the simple-features structure: the first ring is a shell and subsequent rings are holes, regardless of input winding. Sedona preserves the submitted coordinate order for structural output such as `ST_AsText`, while normalizing only the S2-facing traversal used by spherical operations.

Each Geography polygon shell is normalized to an area of at most one hemisphere. A shell intended to represent more than half the sphere is therefore interpreted as its complement; reversing the ring's coordinate sequence does not select the larger region.

![ST_Intersects returning true](../../../../image/ST_Intersects_geography/ST_Intersects_geography_true.svg "ST_Intersects returning true")
![ST_Intersects returning false](../../../../image/ST_Intersects_geography/ST_Intersects_geography_false.svg "ST_Intersects returning false")

Format:

`ST_Intersects (A: Geography, B: Geography)`

Return type: `Boolean`

Since: `v1.9.1`

SQL Example — overlapping polygons:

```sql
SELECT ST_Intersects(
  ST_GeogFromWKT('POLYGON ((0 0, 2 0, 2 2, 0 2, 0 0))', 4326),
  ST_GeogFromWKT('POLYGON ((1 1, 3 1, 3 3, 1 3, 1 1))', 4326)
);
```

Output:

```
true
```

SQL Example — disjoint polygons:

```sql
SELECT ST_Intersects(
  ST_GeogFromWKT('POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))', 4326),
  ST_GeogFromWKT('POLYGON ((10 10, 11 10, 11 11, 10 11, 10 10))', 4326)
);
```

Output:

```
false
```