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 20^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Pentagon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 61.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 2570^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2887^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 20^th most popular in buildings in Simple 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3895^th most popular in Simple 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.

Since the creation of article “The Pentagon”, its content was written by 47 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2887^th place) and edited by 3933 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3980^th place).

The Pentagon is on the 20^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 26^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 73 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14624 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #198 in May 2007
• Global: #112 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #324 in July 2023
• 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