LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT

A light emitting element includes an n-pad electrode, a light-transmissive electrically conductive film on an upper surface of the p-side semiconductor layer, and a p-pad electrode on an upper surface of the light-transmissive electrically conductive film. When viewed from above, the semiconductor layered structure has a pentagonal outer peripheral shape having a first side, a second side adjacent to the first side at a right angle, a third side adjacent to the first side at a right angle, a fourth side adjacent to the second side at an obtuse angle, and a fifth side adjacent to the third side and the fourth side at an obtuse angle to the third side. The n-pad electrode is disposed near the first side, and the p-pad electrode is disposed closer to a first vertex where the fourth side and the fifth side meet, than the n-pad electrode is disposed to the first vertex.