Gulf of Panama

The Gulf of Panama is a gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of , where most of eastern Panama's southern shores adjoin it. The Gulf has a maximum width of 250 kilometres, a maximum depth of 220 metres and the size of 2,400 square kilometres.
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  • Type: Gulf
  • Description: gulf in the Pacific Ocean
  • Also known as: Gulf of Panamá” and “Panama Bight

Gulf of Panama

Latitude
8° north
Longitude
-79.5° or 79° 30′ west
Open location code
67W22G22+22
Geo­Names ID
3703438
Wiki­data ID
Q645012
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Gulf of Panama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: خليج بنما
  • Basque: Panamako golkoa
  • Belarusian: Панамскі заліў
  • Bengali: পানামা উপসাগর
  • Bulgarian: Панамски залив
  • Catalan: golf de Panamà
  • Catalan: Golf de Panamà
  • Cebuano: Golfo de Panamá
  • Chinese: 巴拿马湾
  • Czech: Panamský záliv
  • Czech: záliv Panama
  • Dutch: Golf van Panama
  • Esperanto: Golfo de Panamo
  • Finnish: Panamanlahti
  • French: golfe de Panama
  • French: Golfe de Panama
  • French: Golfe de Panamá
  • Galician: Golfo de Panamá
  • German: Golf von Panama
  • German: Golf von Panamá
  • Hebrew: מפרץ פנמה
  • Icelandic: Panamaflói
  • Iloko: Golpo ti Panama
  • Italian: golfo di Panama
  • Italian: Golfo di Panama
  • Italian: Golfo di Panamá
  • Japanese: パナマ湾
  • Kirghiz: Панама булуңу
  • Korean: 파나마만
  • Latvian: Panamas līcis
  • Lithuanian: Panamos įlanka
  • Macedonian: Панамски Залив
  • Malay: Teluk Panama
  • Malayalam: പനാമ ഉൾക്കടൽ
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Gulf of Panama
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Panamabukta
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Panamabukten
  • Norwegian: Panamabukten
  • Persian: خلیج پاناما
  • Polish: Zatoka Panamska
  • Portuguese: Golfo do Panamá
  • Romanian: Golful Panama
  • Russian: Панамский залив
  • Serbo-Croatian: Panamski zaljev
  • Slovak: Panamský záliv
  • Slovenian: Panamski zaliv
  • Spanish: Golfo de Panama
  • Spanish: Golfo de Panamá
  • Spanish: Golfo De Panamá
  • Swahili: Ghuba ya Panama
  • Swedish: Panamabukten
  • Thai: Gulf of Panama
  • Thai: อ่าวปานามา
  • Turkish: Panama Körfezi
  • Ukrainian: Панамська затока
  • Vietnamese: Vịnh Panamá
  • Waray (Philippines): Golpo han Panama
  • Western Frisian: Golf fan Panama

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gulf of Panama”. Photo: Desi burgos, Public domain.