Pentagon

Pentagon station is a split platform station on the Washington Metro located adjacent to The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

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Type: Metro station
Description: Washington Metro station in Arlington, VA on the Blue and Yellow lines
Also known as: “Pentagon station”, “Pentagon Station”, and “Pentagon Transit Center”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pentagon and Pentagon Memorial.

Pentagon

Military installation

Photo: David B. Gleason, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Pentagon is situated 1,600 feet north of Pentagon.

Pentagon Memorial

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The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, or simply the Pentagon Memorial, located just southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., 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. Pentagon Memorial is situated 1,500 feet west of Pentagon.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

Garden

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac is located on Lady Bird Johnson Park, in Washington, D.C. The presidential memorial honors the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pentagon City and National Landing.

Pentagon City

Suburb

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Pentagon City is an unincorporated neighborhood located in the southeast portion of Arlington County, Virginia. It is located near the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.

National Landing

Neighborhood

National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria.

Crystal City

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

Pentagon

Categories: underground station, railway station, station, and transportation
Location: Arlington, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.86913° or 38° 52′ 9″ north

Longitude

-77.05408° or 77° 3′ 15″ west

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

WMATA

Network

Washington Metro

Open location code

87C4VW9W+M9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 453069888

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=station

Wikidata ID

Q171200

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In Other Languages

From Bashkir to Urdu—“Pentagon” goes by many names.

Bashkir: “Пентагон”
Chinese: “五角大廈站”
Chinese: “五角大楼站”
Chinese: “五角大樓站”
Dutch: “Pentagon Station”
French: “Pentagon”
Italian: “Pentagon”
Japanese: “ペンタゴン駅”
Korean: “펜타곤”
Russian: “Пентагон”
Spanish: “Pentagono”
Spanish: “Pentágono”
Ukrainian: “Пентагон”
Urdu: “پینٹاگون اسٹیشن”

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