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Panama is a country at the southern end of . The country is known as the "Crossroads of the Americas" due to its location between and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Panama City and Colon.

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Capital of Panama and the most populous city in the country, it is located on the Pacific coast, near the entrance of the Panama Canal.

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Colón is a city in . It's the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. The town is in poor condition and notorious for its high crime rate, but it is worth driving around to look at the culture, people and architecture.

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is a park in the Gulf of Chiriqui in the of Panama that is frequently called the " of " for its abundance of rare species in the water and on land. Coiba is known for its superior diving.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Panama and Pacific West.

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The region includes much of Panama province and all of Colon and Cocle provinces.

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The of Panama includes all of Chiriqui Province, Herrera Province and Los Santos Province, and the southern portion of Veraguas Province.

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The region of Panama includes all of Bocas del Toro province and Ngöbe-Buglé province as well as the northern portion of Veruguas province.

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includes some of Panama Province and the whole of the largely impenetrable Darien Province plus Guna Yala.

Panama

Latitude of center
8.98° or 8° 58′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
-79.96° or 79° 57′ 36″ west
Population
3,330,000
Area
78,200 km² (30,193 miles²)
Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)
Capital
Currency
Balboa (PAB)
Phone code
.pa
Internet domain
507
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316758
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3703430
Wiki­data ID
Q804
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Panama” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Panama”
  • Adyghe: “Панамэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Panama”
  • Akan: “Panama”
  • Albanian: “Panama”
  • Albanian: “Panamaja”
  • Amharic: “ፓናማ”
  • Amis: “Panama”
  • Angika: “पनामा”
  • Arabic: “باناما”
  • Arabic: “بنما”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية بنما”
  • Aragonese: “Panamá”
  • Armenian: “Պանամա”
  • Arpitan: “Panama”
  • Assamese: “পানামা”
  • Asturian: “Panamá”
  • Atayal: “Panama”
  • Awadhi: “पनामा”
  • Aymara: “Panama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Panama”
  • Balinese: “Panama”
  • Bambara: “Panama”
  • Bashkir: “Панама”
  • Basque: “Panama”
  • Batak Toba: “Panama”
  • Bavarian: “Panama”
  • Belarusian: “Панама”
  • Bengali: “পানামা”
  • Betawi: “Panama”
  • Bhojpuri: “पनामा”
  • Bishnupriya: “পানামা”
  • Bislama: “Panama”
  • Bosnian: “Panama”
  • Brahui: “Pánámá”
  • Breton: “Panama”
  • Breton: “Panamá”
  • Bulgarian: “Панама”
  • Burmese: “ပနားမား”
  • Burmese: “ပနားမားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “El Panamà”
  • Catalan: “Panamà”
  • Cebuano: “Panama”
  • Central Bikol: “Panama”
  • Central Kurdish: “پەنەما”
  • Chavacano: “Panamá”
  • Chechen: “Панама”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎾᎹ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᏆᎾᎹ”
  • Cheyenne: “Panama”
  • Chinese: “Panama”
  • Chinese: “巴拿馬”
  • Chinese: “巴拿马 / 巴拿馬”
  • Chinese: “巴拿马”
  • Chuvash: “Панама”
  • Cornish: “Panama”
  • Corsican: “Panamà”
  • Corsican: “Republica di Panamà”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Panama”
  • Croatian: “Panama”
  • Czech: “Panama”
  • Dagbani: “Panama”
  • Danish: “Panama”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕެނަމާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Panama”
  • Dotyali: “पानामा”
  • Dutch: “PA”
  • Dutch: “PAN”
  • Dutch: “Panama”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Panama”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ན་མ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Панама”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باناما”
  • Erzya: “Панама”
  • Esperanto: “PA”
  • Esperanto: “Panamo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Panamo”
  • Estonian: “Panama Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Panama”
  • Ewe: “Panama nutome”
  • Ewe: “Panama”
  • Extremaduran: “Panamá”
  • Faroese: “Panama”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Panama”
  • Finnish: “Panama”
  • Finnish: “Panaman tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Panama”
  • French: “pa”
  • French: “PA”
  • French: “PAN”
  • French: “Panama”
  • French: “Panamá”
  • French: “PM”
  • French: “République du Panama”
  • Fulah: “Panamaa”
  • Gagauz: “Panama”
  • Galician: “Panamá”
  • Ganda: “Panama”
  • Georgian: “პანამა”
  • German: “pa”
  • German: “Panama”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Panama”
  • Gilaki: “پاناما”
  • Goan Konkani: “Panama”
  • Goan Konkani: “पनामा”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Παναμά”
  • Greek: “Παναμάς”
  • Guarani: “Panama”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Pannanman”
  • Gujarati: “પનામા”
  • Haitian: “Panama”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Panama”
  • Hausa: “Panama”
  • Hawaiian: “Panamā”
  • Hebrew: “פנמה”
  • Hindi: “पनामा”
  • Hungarian: “Panama”
  • Hungarian: “Panamai Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Panama”
  • Icelandic: “Panama”
  • Ido: “Panama”
  • Igbo: “Panama”
  • Iloko: “Panama”
  • Inari Sami: “Panama täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Panama”
  • Indonesian: “Panama”
  • Interlingua: “Panama”
  • Interlingue: “Panamá”
  • Irish: “Panama”
  • Italian: “Panama”
  • Italian: “Panamá”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Panama”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Panamaa”
  • Japanese: “パナマ”
  • Japanese: “パナマ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Panama”
  • Kabiyè: “Panama”
  • Kabyle: “Panama”
  • Kalaallisut: “Panama”
  • Kalmyk: “Панамудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಪನಾಮಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Panama”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Панама”
  • Kashmiri: “پَناما”
  • Kashmiri: “پَنامَہ”
  • Kashmiri: “पानामा”
  • Kashubian: “Panama”
  • Kazakh: “Панама”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ាណាម៉ា”
  • Kikuyu: “Panama”
  • Kinaray-A: “Panama”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Panama”
  • Kirghiz: “Панама”
  • Komi: “Панама”
  • Korean: “빠나마”
  • Korean: “파나마”
  • Kotava: “Panama”
  • Kurdish: “Panama”
  • Ladin: “Panama”
  • Ladino: “Panama”
  • Lao: “ພານາມາ”
  • Latin: “Panama”
  • Latvian: “Panama”
  • Ligurian: “Panamá”
  • Limburgan: “Panama”
  • Lingala: “Panama”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Panama”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴拿馬”
  • Lithuanian: “Panama”
  • Livvi: “Panama”
  • Lojban: “panamas”
  • Lombard: “Panama”
  • Low German: “Panama”
  • Low German: “Republik Panama”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Panama”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Panama”
  • Luxembourgish: “Panama”
  • Macedonian: “Панама”
  • Madurese: “Panama”
  • Malagasy: “Panama”
  • Malagasy: “Panamà”
  • Malay: “Panama”
  • Malayalam: “പനാമ”
  • Malayalam: “പാനമ”
  • Maltese: “il-Panama”
  • Maltese: “Panama”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Panama”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯅꯥꯃꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Phanamaa”
  • Manx: “Yn Phanamaa”
  • Maori: “Panama”
  • Maori: “Panamā”
  • Marathi: “पनामा”
  • Mazanderani: “پاناما”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Panama”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Panama”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Panamá”
  • Minangkabau: “Panama”
  • Mingrelian: “პანამა”
  • Mirandese: “Panamá”
  • Moksha: “Панама”
  • Mongolian: “Панам”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پاناما”
  • Narom: “Panama”
  • Nepali: “पानामा”
  • Nepali: “प्यानामा”
  • Newari: “पनामा”
  • North Ndebele: “Panama”
  • Northern Frisian: “Panama”
  • Northern Luri: “پاناما”
  • Northern Sami: “Panama dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Panama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Panama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Panama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Panama”
  • Norwegian: “Panama”
  • Novial: “Panama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Panamà”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Panama”
  • Oriya: “ପାନାମା”
  • Oromo: “Panaamaa”
  • Ossetian: “Панамæ”
  • Paiwan: “Panama”
  • Pali: “पानामा”
  • Pampanga: “Panama”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਨਾਮਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Panama”
  • Persian: “پاناما”
  • Persian: “پانامه”
  • Picard: “Panama”
  • Piemontese: “Panamà”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Panama”
  • Polish: “Panama”
  • Portuguese: “pa”
  • Portuguese: “Panamá”
  • Portuguese: “República do Panamá”
  • Pushto: “پاناما”
  • Quechua: “Panama”
  • Quechua: “Panamá”
  • Romanian: “Panama”
  • Romansh: “Panama”
  • Rundi: “Panama”
  • Russia Buriat: “Панама”
  • Russian: “Панама”
  • Russian: “Панамская республика”
  • Russian: “Республика Панама”
  • Sakizaya: “Panama”
  • Samoan: “Panama”
  • Samogitian: “Panama”
  • Sango: “Panama”
  • Sanskrit: “पानामा”
  • Sardinian: “Panamá”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Panama”
  • Scots: “Panama”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Panama”
  • Serbian: “Panama”
  • Serbian: “Панама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Panama”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃႈၼႃးမႃး”
  • Shona: “Panama”
  • Sicilian: “Panamà”
  • Silesian: “Panama”
  • Sindhi: “پاناما”
  • Sindhi: “پناما”
  • Sinhala: “පැනමාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Panama tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Panama”
  • Slovak: “Panama”
  • Slovak: “Panamská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Panama”
  • Somali: “Baanama”
  • Somali: “Banama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاناما”
  • Spanish: “Panamá”
  • Spanish: “República de Panamá”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⵏⴰⵎⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Panama”
  • Swahili: “Panama”
  • Swati: “IPhanama”
  • Swedish: “Panama”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Panama”
  • Swiss German: “Panama”
  • Sylheti: “ꠙꠣꠘꠣꠝꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Panama”
  • Tajik: “Панама”
  • Talysh: “Panama”
  • Tamil: “பணாமா”
  • Tamil: “பனாமா”
  • Taroko: “Panama”
  • Tatar: “Панама”
  • Telugu: “పనామా”
  • Tetum: “Panamá”
  • Thai: “ประเทศปานามา”
  • Thai: “ปานามา”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐปานามา”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ན་མ།”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ནཱ་མ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ፓናማ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Panama”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Panamā”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Panama”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “پنما”
  • Turkish: “Panama Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Panama”
  • Turkmen: “Panama”
  • Udmurt: “Панама”
  • Uighur: “پاناما”
  • Ukrainian: “Панама”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Panama”
  • Urdu: “پاناما”
  • Urdu: “پانامہ”
  • Uzbek: “Panama”
  • Venetian: “Pànama”
  • Veps: “Panam”
  • Vietnamese: “Pa-na-ma”
  • Vietnamese: “Panama”
  • Vietnamese: “Panamá”
  • Vlax Romani: “Panama”
  • Volapük: “Panamän”
  • Võro: “Panama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Panamá”
  • Wayuu: “Panamaa”
  • Welsh: “Panama”
  • Welsh: “Panamá”
  • Welsh: “Panamâ”
  • Western Armenian: “Փանամա”
  • Western Frisian: “Panama”
  • Western Mari: “Панама”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاناما”
  • Wolof: “Panama”
  • Wolof: “Panamaa”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴拿马”
  • Yakut: “Панаама”
  • Yakut: “Панама”
  • Yiddish: “פאנאמא”
  • Yiddish: “פּאַנאַמאַ”
  • Yoruba: “Panama”
  • Yoruba: “Panamá”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拿馬”
  • Zeeuws: “Panama”
  • Zhuang: “Panama”
  • Zulu: “i-Panama”
  • Zulu: “Panama”
  • “ma Panama”
  • “PA”
  • “PAN”
  • “Panama”
  • “Panaman”
  • “Panaman Axkayotl”
  • “पनामा”

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