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Mount Rushmore vs The Pentagon

Mount Rushmore vs the Pentagon
The Pentagon is larger on height
The Pentagon is somewhat greater than Mount Rushmore on height — about 1.3×.

Mount Rushmore and the Pentagon can be compared on 2 measures. The figures below are typical adult or full-size values, with the larger of the two in bold.

Side by side

Larger value in bold. Ranges reflect genuine variation, not uncertainty.
Mount Rushmore The Pentagon
Height 18 m 24 m
Area 5,170,000 m² 620,000 m²

What the numbers say

  • The Pentagon is somewhat greater than Mount Rushmore on height — about 1.3×.
  • Mount Rushmore is 8.3× the Pentagon on area.

Height compared.

The Pentagon 24 m
Mount Rushmore 18 m

Mount Rushmore

Four 18-metre presidential heads carved into a granite face in the Black Hills of South Dakota between 1927 and 1941.

The Pentagon

The headquarters of the US Department of Defense, and one of the largest office buildings in the world by floor area.

This is a comparison of published measurements, nothing more. It describes how two things differ on measures that have been recorded; it does not predict how they would fare against each other in any situation.

Common questions

Which is bigger, Mount Rushmore or the Pentagon?
The Pentagon is somewhat greater than Mount Rushmore on height — about 1.3×. Both figures are typical values; the full range for each is in the table above.
How do Mount Rushmores and the Pentagons compare on area?
Mount Rushmore: 5,170,000 m². The Pentagon: 620,000 m². Mount Rushmore is 8.3× the Pentagon on area.

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Sources

  1. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

How these figures are compiled and checked