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 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 61^st most popular building in German Wikipedia. Article “Pentagon” in German Wikipedia has 28.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 6536^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 7876^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 61^st most popular in buildings in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4178^th most popular in all topics.

The 3991^st most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7742^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4959^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Pentagon” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 29 authors in all languages (4959^th place).

Since the creation of article “Pentagon”, its content was written by 305 registered users of German Wikipedia (7876^th place) and edited by 3985 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3991^st place).

The Pentagon is on the 61^st place in local ranking of buildings in German Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 631 times in German Wikipedia and cited 15745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #11 in October 2001
• Global: #113 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #162 in January 2018
• Global: #585 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, 2026 (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		90.3171
2	Croatian (hr) Pentagon (zgrada)		89.0195
3	Greek (el) Πεντάγωνο (ΗΠΑ)		87.1597
4	Thai (th) เดอะเพนตากอน		86.8684
5	Turkish (tr) Pentagon		85.5261
6	Chinese (zh) 五角大楼		78.0618
7	Uzbek (uz) Pentagon		66.3451
8	Arabic (ar) البنتاغون		64.265
9	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		60.5097
10	Simple English (simple) The Pentagon		57.9185

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Pentagon		20 346 311
2	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		3 792 288
3	Russian (ru) Пентагон		3 622 248
4	German (de) Pentagon		2 982 637
5	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		2 367 639
6	Japanese (ja) ペンタゴン		1 921 554
7	Portuguese (pt) O Pentágono		1 484 500
8	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		1 415 728
9	Polish (pl) Pentagon		1 219 943
10	Arabic (ar) البنتاغون		834 522

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		59 098
2	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		6 751
3	Persian (fa) پنتاگون		5 991
4	Russian (ru) Пентагон		5 829
5	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		5 301
6	German (de) Pentagon		5 024
7	Japanese (ja) ペンタゴン		4 550
8	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		4 194
9	Chinese (zh) 五角大楼		3 640
10	Portuguese (pt) O Pentágono		3 033

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		1 345
2	German (de) Pentagon		305
3	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		227
4	Russian (ru) Пентагон		184
5	Italian (it) Pentagono (edificio)		159
6	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		146
7	Dutch (nl) Pentagon (Verenigde Staten)		134
8	Polish (pl) Pentagon		103
9	Hebrew (he) הפנטגון		98
10	Chinese (zh) 五角大楼		93

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		8
2	French (fr) Pentagone (États-Unis)		6
3	Persian (fa) پنتاگون		4
4	Spanish (es) El Pentágono		2
5	Arabic (ar) البنتاغون		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Пентагон		1
7	Catalan (ca) El Pentàgon		1
8	German (de) Pentagon		1
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) The Pentagon		1
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Pentagon		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Demokratische Republik Kongo, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026, Senegal, Julian Nagelsmann, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1994, Jürgen Klopp, Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2028, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information