25 facts about the pentagon
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Meaning of pentagon in English
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Pentagon
A pentagon is a geometrical shape, which has five sides and five angles. Here, “Penta” denotes five and “gon” denotes angle. The pentagon is one of the types of polygons. The sum of all the interior angles for a regular pentagon is 540 degrees.
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In Geometry, we study about different types of shapes. The two-dimensional shape that is composed of straight lines and interior angles is known as a polygon. The examples of polygons are:
- Triangle (three-sided polygon)
- Quadrilateral (four-sided polygon)
- Pentagon (five-sided polygon)
- Hexagon (six-sided polygon)
- Heptagon (seven-sided polygon)
- Octagon (eight-sided polygon) and so on.
In this article, you can learn about the five-sided polygon called “pentagon” with proper definition, shape, sides, properties along with its perimeter and area of a pentagon formula in detail.
Pentagon Definition
A pentagon is a polygon with 5 sides and 5 angles. The word “pentagon” is made up of two words, namely Penta and Gonia, which means five angles. All the sides of a pentagon meet wi
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The Pentagon
Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia
For other uses, see The Pentagon (disambiguation).
| The Pentagon | |
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A view of the Pentagon from above the Potomac River in 2018 | |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival, Modern, and Stripped Classicism |
| Location | Richmond Hwy./VA 110 at I-395, Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 38°52′15″N77°03′18″W / 38.87083°N 77.05500°W / 38.87083; -77.05500 |
| Construction started | 11 September 1941 (1941-09-11) |
| Completed | 15 January 1943 (1943-01-15) |
| Cost | $83 million (equivalent to $1.33 billion in 2023)[1] |
| Owner | United States Department of Defense |
| Roof | 77 ft (23 m)[2] |
| Floor count | 7 (2 underground) |
| Floor area | 6,636,360 sq ft (620,000 m2) |
| Architect(s) | George Bergstrom David J. Witmer |
| Main contractor | John McShain, Inc. |
| Parking | 67 acres (27 ha) |
Pentagon Office Building Complex | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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