The figure below is a regular hexagon ABCDEF with side '2a' cm, where AB and DE are its two vertical sides. A rectangle is drawn using AB as one side, with its other two (unlabelled) corners G (on the same level as B) and H (on the same level as A), where AG = FG and ED \( \parallel \) GH. What is the area of the shaded region (the region between the rectangle and the hexagon's boundary)?