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 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 21^st most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Pentagon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 57.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2621^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3073^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 21^st most popular in buildings in Simple English 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3972^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia 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.

Since the creation of article “The Pentagon”, its content was written by 47 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3073^rd place) and edited by 3985 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3991^st place).

The Pentagon is on the 21^st place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 78 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #198 in May 2007
• Global: #113 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #322 in July 2023
• 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.

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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 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