Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in , across the from The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.
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  • Type: Military installation
  • Description: headquarters of the United States Department of Defense; named after the shape of the building, a polygon with five (greek: penta) sides
  • Also known as: “Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense”, “Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (1947–2025)”, “Headquarters of the United States Department of War (1789–1947)”, “Headquarters of the United States Department of War (2025–present)”, “Pentagon Office Building Complex”, and “The Pentagon”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Arlington National Cemetery and Pentagon Memorial.

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is in . Just across the Potomac River from , adjacent to the Pentagon, this national military cemetery includes John F.

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The National 9/11 , or simply the , located just southwest of the Pentagon in , across the from , is a permanent outdoor memorial to the 184 people who died as victims in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks. is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Pentagon.

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The is a U.S. national memorial honoring Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, located on the western end of the of The memorial is built in a neoclassical style in the form of a classical temple. is situated 1 mile north of Pentagon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pentagon City and National Landing.

Suburb
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is an unincorporated neighborhood located in the southeast portion of . It is located near the Pentagon and .

Neighborhood
is an area in encompassing parts of the and neighborhoods of and the neighborhood in the city of .

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is the secondary "downtown" area of , after the Rosslyn–Ballston Corridor. This article also includes the nearby neighborhoods of Pentagon City, Arlington Ridge, and Aurora Highlands.

Pentagon

Latitude
38.87339° or 38° 52′ 24″ north
Longitude
-77.05416° or 77° 3′ 15″ west
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Operator
United States Department of Defense
Open location code
87C4VWFW+98
Open­Street­Map ID
way 916068128
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­base
Geo­Names ID
4778469
Wiki­data ID
Q11208
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pentagon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pentagon”
  • Albanian: “Pentagoni”
  • Arabic: “البنتاجون”
  • Arabic: “البنتاغون”
  • Arabic: “البنتاگون”
  • Arabic: “البينتاجون”
  • Arabic: “بنتاجون”
  • Arabic: “بنتاغون”
  • Arabic: “بنتاگون”
  • Arabic: “بينتاغون”
  • Arabic: “مبنى وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية”
  • Armenian: “Պենտագոն”
  • Asturian: “Departamentu de Defensa de los Estaos Xuníos”
  • Asturian: “El Pentágonu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pentaqon”
  • Balinese: “Pentagon”
  • Bashkir: “Пентагон”
  • Basque: “Pentagonoa”
  • Belarusian: “Пентагон”
  • Belarusian: “Пэнтагон”
  • Bengali: “পেন্টাগন”
  • Bosnian: “Pentagon”
  • Breton: “Pentagon”
  • Bulgarian: “Пентагон”
  • Burmese: “ပင်တဂွန် စစ်ဌာနချုပ်”
  • Catalan: “El Pentàgon”
  • Central Bikol: “An Pentagono”
  • Central Bikol: “Pentagon”
  • Central Kurdish: “پنتاگۆن”
  • Chinese: “Pentagon”
  • Chinese: “五角大廈”
  • Chinese: “五角大楼”
  • Chinese: “五角大樓”
  • Croatian: “Pentagon”
  • Czech: “Pentagon”
  • Danish: “Pentagon-bygningen”
  • Danish: “Pentagon”
  • Dutch: “Het Pentagon”
  • Dutch: “Pentagon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البنتاجون”
  • Esperanto: “Pentagono”
  • Estonian: “Pentagon”
  • Faroese: “Pentagon”
  • Finnish: “Pentagon”
  • French: “Pentagone”
  • Galician: “O Pentágono”
  • Galician: “The Pentagon”
  • Georgian: “პენტაგონი”
  • German: “Pentagon”
  • Greek: “Πεντάγωνο”
  • Hebrew: “הפנטגון”
  • Hindi: “पेंटागन”
  • Hungarian: “Pentagon”
  • Icelandic: “Pentagon”
  • Ido: “Pentagono (edifico)”
  • Ido: “Pentagono”
  • Indonesian: “Gedung Pentagon”
  • Irish: “An Peinteagán”
  • Italian: “Il Pentagono”
  • Italian: “Pentagono”
  • Japanese: “ペンタゴン”
  • Javanese: “Pentagon”
  • Kannada: “ದಿ ಪೆಂಟಗನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пентагон”
  • Kirghiz: “Пентагон”
  • Korean: “펜타곤”
  • Kurdish: “Pentagon”
  • Latvian: “Pentagons”
  • Lithuanian: “Pentagonas”
  • Macedonian: “Пентагон”
  • Malagasy: “The Pentagon”
  • Malay: “The Pentagon”
  • Malayalam: “പെന്റഗൺ”
  • Manx: “Pentagon”
  • Marathi: “द पेंटागॉन”
  • Marathi: “पेंटॅगॉन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngó͘-kak-tāi-hā”
  • Mingrelian: “პენტაგონი”
  • Mongolian: “Пентагон”
  • Nepali: “पेन्टागन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Pentagon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Pentagon”
  • Norwegian: “The Pentagon”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੈਂਟਾਗਨ”
  • Persian: “پنتاگون”
  • Polish: “Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense”
  • Polish: “Pentagon”
  • Polish: “siedziba Departamentu Obrony Stanów Zjednoczonych”
  • Polish: “The Pentagon”
  • Polish: “United States Department of Defense (budynek)”
  • Portuguese: “O Pentágono”
  • Pushto: “پنټاګون”
  • Quechua: “Pisqa k’uchu kaq”
  • Romanian: “Pentagon, Washington D.C.”
  • Romanian: “Pentagon”
  • Russian: “Пентагон (США)”
  • Russian: “Пентагон”
  • Scots: “The Pentagon”
  • Serbian: “Pentagon”
  • Serbian: “Пентагон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pentagon”
  • Sindhi: “پينٽاگون”
  • Slovak: “Pentagón”
  • Slovenian: “Pentagon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنتاقون”
  • Spanish: “Complejo del edificio de oficinas del Pentágono”
  • Spanish: “El Pentagono”
  • Spanish: “El Pentágono”
  • Swahili: “The Pentagon”
  • Swedish: “Pentagon”
  • Tagalog: “The Pentagon”
  • Tamil: “பென்டகன்”
  • Thai: “เดอะเพนตากอน”
  • Turkish: “Pentagon”
  • Uighur: “بەش بۈرجەكلىك بىنا (پەنتاگون)”
  • Uighur: “بەش بۈرجەكلىك بىنا”
  • Ukrainian: “Пентагон”
  • Urdu: “پینٹا گون”
  • Uzbek: “Pentagon”
  • Venetian: “El Pentàgono”
  • Vietnamese: “Lầu Năm Góc”
  • Waray (Philippines): “An Pentagono”
  • Welsh: “Y Pentagon”
  • Western Panjabi: “پینٹاگون”
  • Wu Chinese: “五角大楼”
  • Yakut: “Пентагон”
  • Yiddish: “פענטאגאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “五角大樓”

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