The 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 25^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “The Pentagon” in English Wikipedia has 90.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 94 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5478^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3290^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 25^th most popular in buildings in English 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:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5354^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 7315^th most editable in English 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.

In June 2025 the article “The Pentagon” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (7315^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6855^th place).

Since the creation of article “The Pentagon”, its content was written by 1305 registered users of English Wikipedia (3290^th place) and edited by 3933 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3980^th place).

The Pentagon is on the 25^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 26^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 4522 times in English Wikipedia (5434^th place) and cited 14624 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #572 in December 2003
• Global: #112 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #722 in September 2021
• 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