Panamá Province
Panamá District
Corregimiento Bella Vista

Panama City

Capital of 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Metropolitan Natural Park.

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is a protected natural area that is entirely within Panama City, the capital of . It is the only national park in Latin America that is within a major city.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ancon Hill and Albrook Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport.

Peak
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Ancón Hill is a 199 metres high hill that overlooks Panama City, , adjacent to the township of . It was used for administration of the and was under U.S. jurisdiction as a part of the Panama Canal Zone until being returned to Panama in 1977.

Aerodrome
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Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport is a public airport located 1.5 kilometres west of the center of Panama City, in the of .

Government office
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is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Balboa and Casco Antiguo.

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is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the . It was the capital of the Panama Canal Zone under American administration.

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

Village
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's Ciudad del Saber is a government-sponsored cluster of academic organizations, technology companies and non-governmental organizations, managed by the foundation of the same name.

Panama City

Latitude
8.9714° or 8° 58′ 17″ north
Longitude
-79.5342° or 79° 32′ 3″ west
Population
1,090,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
PTY
United Nations Location Code
PA PTY
Open location code
67W2XFC8+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1242998122
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3703443
Wiki­data ID
Q3306
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Panama City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Banda Panama”
  • Afrikaans: “Panama-Stad”
  • Afrikaans: “Panamastad”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti i Panamasë”
  • Amharic: “ፓናማ ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “بنما”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بنما”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat de Panamá”
  • Aragonese: “Ziudá de Panamá”
  • Armenian: “Պանամա”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Panamá”
  • Aymara: “Panama marka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Panama şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Panama”
  • Balinese: “Kota Panama”
  • Basque: “Panama Hiria”
  • Basque: “Panama”
  • Belarusian: “Панама”
  • Bengali: “পানামা শহর”
  • Bengali: “পানামা সিটি”
  • Bosnian: “Panama City”
  • Breton: “Ciudad de Panamá”
  • Breton: “Panamá”
  • Bulgarian: “Панама”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Panamà”
  • Catalan: “Panamà”
  • Cebuano: “Panamá (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Panamá”
  • Central Kurdish: “پەنەما سیتی”
  • Chechen: “Панама (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Панама”
  • Chinese: “Panama Chhī”
  • Chinese: “巴拿馬城”
  • Chinese: “巴拿馬市”
  • Chinese: “巴拿马城”
  • Corsican: “Cità di Panamà”
  • Corsican: “Panamà”
  • Croatian: “Panamá”
  • Czech: “Ciudad de Panamá”
  • Czech: “Panamá”
  • Danish: “Panama City”
  • Danish: “Panama”
  • Dotyali: “पानामा सिटी”
  • Dutch: “Panama-stad”
  • Dutch: “Panama-Stad”
  • Dutch: “Panama”
  • Dutch: “Panamá”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پاناما سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Panamurbo”
  • Estonian: “Panamá”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Panama City”
  • Finnish: “Panama”
  • Finnish: “Panamá”
  • French: “Panama”
  • French: “Panamá”
  • French: “Ville de Panama”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Panamá”
  • Georgian: “პანამა”
  • German: “Panama City”
  • German: “Panama-Stadt”
  • German: “Panama”
  • German: “Panamá”
  • Greek: “Παναμά”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του Παναμά”
  • Guarani: “Táva Panama”
  • Gujarati: “પનામા શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “પનામા સિટી”
  • Haitian: “Panama”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Panama Sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Panama (birni)”
  • Hausa: “Panama”
  • Hebrew: “פנמה סיטי”
  • Hindi: “पनामा शहर”
  • Hindi: “पनामा सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Panama”
  • Hungarian: “Panamaváros”
  • Icelandic: “Panamaborg”
  • Ido: “Panama-urbo”
  • Ido: “Panama-Urbo”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Panama”
  • Interlingue: “Panamá Cité”
  • Irish: “Panamá”
  • Italian: “Panama City”
  • Italian: “Panama”
  • Italian: “Panamá”
  • Italian: “Panamà”
  • Japanese: “パナマ・シティ”
  • Japanese: “パナマシティ”
  • Japanese: “パナマ市”
  • Kannada: “ಪನಾಮ ನಗರ”
  • Kazakh: “Панама (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Панама қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Панама”
  • Kikuyu: “Panama City”
  • Kirghiz: “Панама шаары”
  • Korean: “빠나마 시”
  • Korean: “시우다드 데 파나마”
  • Korean: “파나마 시”
  • Korean: “파나마시티”
  • Kotava: “Panamá (widava)”
  • Kotava: “Panamá”
  • Kurdish: “Panama”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Panama”
  • Latin: “Urbs Panamensis”
  • Latvian: “Panama”
  • Ligurian: “Çittæ do Panamá”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Panama”
  • Lithuanian: “Panama”
  • Livvi: “Panama”
  • Lombard: “Cità de Panama”
  • Luxembourgish: “Panama-Stad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Panama”
  • Macedonian: “Панама”
  • Malay: “Bandar Panama”
  • Malay: “Kota Panama”
  • Malay: “Panama City”
  • Malayalam: “പനാമ സിറ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Belt tal-Panama”
  • Manx: “Ard-valley yn Phanamaa”
  • Manx: “Caayr ny Panamaa”
  • Marathi: “पनामा शहर”
  • Marathi: “पनामा सिटी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Panama Chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Panama Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Panama”
  • Mingrelian: “პანამა (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “პანამა”
  • Mongolian: “Панама Хот”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پاناما سيتي”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمدينة د پاناما”
  • Northern Frisian: “Panama Stääd”
  • Northern Luri: “پاناماسیتی”
  • Northern Sami: “Panama gávpot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Panama by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Panama by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Panama”
  • Norwegian: “Panama by”
  • Norwegian: “Panama”
  • Novial: “Panama Urbe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Panamà”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Panamà”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Panaceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Panamaceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Панамæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਨਾਮਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Siudad di Panama”
  • Persian: “پاناما سیتی”
  • Persian: “پاناماسیتی”
  • Persian: “شهر پاناما”
  • Piemontese: “Sità ëd Panamà”
  • Polish: “Panama City”
  • Polish: “Panama”
  • Polish: “Panamá”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Panamá”
  • Portuguese: “Ciudad de Panamá”
  • Portuguese: “Panamá”
  • Quechua: “Panama llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Ciudad de Panamá”
  • Romanian: “Panama City”
  • Romanian: “Panamá”
  • Russian: “Панама-Сити”
  • Russian: “Панама”
  • Samoan: “Aai o Panama”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱱᱟᱢᱟ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Panamá (tzitade)”
  • Sardinian: “Panamá”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Panama-Stääd”
  • Scots: “Panama Ceety”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Panama”
  • Serbian: “Ciudad de Panamá”
  • Serbian: “Panama”
  • Serbian: “Панама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Panamá”
  • Shona: “Panama City”
  • Silesian: “Panama”
  • Sindhi: “پاناما شهر”
  • Sinhala: “පැනමා නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Panama”
  • Slovenian: “Panama City”
  • Slovenian: “Panama”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Panamá”
  • Spanish: “Panamá”
  • Swahili: “Panama City”
  • Swedish: “Panama City”
  • Swedish: “Panama”
  • Swiss German: “Panama-Stadt”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Panama”
  • Tajik: “Панама (шаҳр)”
  • Tajik: “Панама”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳри Панама”
  • Talysh: “Panama (šəhər)”
  • Talysh: “Panama”
  • Tamil: “பனாமா நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “பனாமா ஸிடி”
  • Tatar: “Панама (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Панама”
  • Telugu: “పనామా నగరం”
  • Thai: “ปานามาซิตี”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ན་མ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Panama-Stadt”
  • Turkish: “Panama Şehri”
  • Turkish: “Panama”
  • Turkmen: “Panama”
  • Udmurt: “Панама кар”
  • Ukrainian: “Панама”
  • Urdu: “پاناما شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Panama shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Panama”
  • Venetian: “Panama”
  • Veps: “Panam”
  • Vietnamese: “Panama”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Panama”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Panamá”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Panamá”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Panama”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Panamâ”
  • Welsh: “Panama”
  • Welsh: “Panamá”
  • Western Frisian: “Panama-Stêd”
  • Western Panjabi: “پانامہ شہر”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴拿马城”
  • Yakut: “Панаама”
  • Yakut: “Панама”
  • Yiddish: “פאנאמא-שטאט”
  • Yiddish: “פאנאמא־שטאט”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Panamá”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拿馬城”
  • Zulu: “i-Panama City”
  • “ma tomo Panama”
  • “Panaman”
  • “Panaman Altepetl”

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