Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Military installation
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 feet (10 metres)
- …is operated by the United States Department of Defense
- 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”“The Pentagon”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Arlington National Cemetery and Pentagon Memorial.
Pentagon Memorial
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The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, or simply the… Pentagon Memorial is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Pentagon.
Lincoln Memorial
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The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial… Lincoln Memorial is situated 1 mile north of Pentagon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pentagon City and National Landing.
Pentagon City
Pentagon City is an unincorporated neighborhood…
National Landing
Neighborhood
National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia…
Pentagon
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Latitude
38.87339° or 38° 52′ 24″ north
Longitude
-77.05416° or 77° 3′ 15″ west
Open location code
87C4VWFW+98
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=base
Satellite Map
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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: “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”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pentagon”
- 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”
- Romanian: “Pentagonul”
- 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 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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Arlington: Highlights
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