Pentagon

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The Pentagon - headquarters of the United States Department of Defense; named after the shape of the building, a polygon with five (greek: penta) sides. This building is the 26^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 60^th most popular building in German Wikipedia. Article “Pentagon” in German Wikipedia has 29.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 6405^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 7976^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 60^th most popular in buildings in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4191^st most popular in all topics.

The 3980^th most popular in AI.

The 26^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 7354^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3528^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6855^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pentagon”, its content was written by 298 registered users of German Wikipedia (7976^th place) and edited by 3933 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3980^th place).

The Pentagon is on the 60^th place in local ranking of buildings in German Wikipedia and on the 26^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 579 times in German Wikipedia and cited 14624 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #11 in October 2001
• Global: #112 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #162 in January 2018
• Global: #582 in September 2021

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Pentagon		90.3934
2	Croatian (hr) Pentagon (zgrada)		89.0228
3	Greek (el) Πεντάγωνο (ΗΠΑ)		86.2971
4	Turkish (tr) Pentagon		85.3045
5	Chinese (zh) 五角大楼		75.5673
6	Uzbek (uz) Pentagon		66.3347
7	Simple English (simple) The Pentagon		61.6025
8	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		58.8571
9	Japanese (ja) ペンタゴン		52.0877
10	Arabic (ar) بنتاغون		50.3236

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Pentagon		19 404 028
2	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		3 700 664
3	Russian (ru) Пентагон		3 287 795
4	German (de) Pentagon		2 886 880
5	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		2 265 290
6	Japanese (ja) ペンタゴン		1 852 257
7	Portuguese (pt) O Pentágono		1 442 236
8	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		1 352 589
9	Polish (pl) Pentagon		1 179 063
10	Arabic (ar) بنتاغون		808 259

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Pentagon		100 021
2	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		12 893
3	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		12 761
4	Russian (ru) Пентагон		11 593
5	Persian (fa) پنتاگون		11 219
6	German (de) Pentagon		9 835
7	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		6 830
8	Japanese (ja) ペンタゴン		6 527
9	Chinese (zh) 五角大楼		6 081
10	Portuguese (pt) O Pentágono		6 076

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Pentagon		1 305
2	German (de) Pentagon		298
3	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		218
4	Russian (ru) Пентагон		177
5	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		155
6	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		140
7	Dutch (nl) Pentagon (Verenigde Staten)		133
8	Polish (pl) Pentagon		103
9	Hebrew (he) הפנטגון		97
10	Chinese (zh) 五角大楼		87

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Pentagon		11
2	Hebrew (he) הפנטגון		4
3	Bulgarian (bg) Пентагон		3
4	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		2
5	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		2
6	Hungarian (hu) Pentagon		1
7	Dutch (nl) Pentagon (Verenigde Staten)		1
8	Russian (ru) Пентагон		1
9	Arabic (ar) بنتاغون		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Pentaqon		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information