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In 1999 Graham and Witten showed that one can define a notion of renormalized area for properly embedded minimal submanifolds of Poincaré-Einstein spaces. For even-dimensional submanifolds, this quantity is a global invariant of the embedded submanifold. In 2008 Alexakis and Mazzeo wrote a paper on this quantity for surfaces in a 3-dimensional PE manifold, getting an explicit formula and studying its functional properties. We will look at a formula for the renormalized area of a minimal hypersurface of a 5-dimensional Poincaré-Einstein space in terms of a Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula.