Molecular geometries only include BONDING pairs.

When describing the shapes of molecules, we always give the molecular geometry rather than the electron-pair geometry. Molecular geometry: the arrangement in space of the atoms of a molecule.Electron-pair geometry: 3-D arrangement of electron pairs around an atom according to the VSEPR model.Two types of valence-shell electron pairs bonding pairs and nonbonding pairs.Electrons repel one another hence, the best arrangement of a given number of electron pairs is the one that minimizes the repulsions among them.Valence-shell electron-pair repulsion (VSEPR) model: model that accounts for the geometric arrangements of shared and unshared electron pairs around a central atom in terms of the repulsions between electron pairs.The Valence-Shell Electron Pair-Repulsion Model Instead, it is a counting procedure that accurately predicts the three-dimensional structures of a large number of compounds, which cannot be predicted using the Lewis electron-pair approach. The VSEPR model is not a theory it does not attempt to explain observations. The VSEPR model can predict the structure of nearly any molecule or polyatomic ion in which the central atom is a nonmetal, as well as the structures of many molecules and polyatomic ions with a central metal atom. VSEPR Model' data-cke-saved-href='/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Map:_Chemistry_-_The_Central_Science_(Brown_et_al.)/09:_Molecular_Geometry_and_Bonding_Theories/9.02:_The_VSEPR_Model' href='/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Map:_Chemistry_-_The_Central_Science_(Brown_et_al.)/09:_Molecular_Geometry_and_Bonding_Theories/9.02:_The_VSEPR_Model' data-quail-id='12'>9.2: The VSEPR Model

Angles in seesaw molecular geometry