Alternative Systems
In some countries, for instance in Germany, wall boxes for electrical fittings generally are not actual rectangular boxes at all but standard-sized round recessed containers. This has the advantage that the corresponding round holes can be simply drilled out with a hole saw rather than needing the cutting out of a rectangular shape to accommodate the wall box. Even with those round-hole systems, the faceplates that cover them are mostly rectangular (or actually quadratic) however. Round-hole systems do not appear to be common in the English-speaking world.
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