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Trick to fix broken polygon geometries in QGIS 3.X

First, I will create a purposefully invalid geometry to apply the fix. Then, I will show you two ways to fix it. In one of them, I simply apply the “Fix geometries” native tool of QGIS. The second option I will show here is using the buffer tool. In this simple trick, I will show you how to create an infinitesimal buffer around my broken geometry, which ends up fixing it, but has its perks as well.