Panama City
Panama City is the capital of Panama. Sitting on the Pacific end of the Panama canal it has long been a point of transit for travelers and freight and these days Tocumen Airport has become the busiest in Central America and one of Latin America's most important transfer hubs.
Photo: Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Ancon Hill
Peak
Ancon Hill is a 199 metres high hill that overlooks Panama City, Panama, adjacent to the township of Ancón. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Albrook Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport
Aerodrome
Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport is a public airport located 1.5 kilometres west of the center of Panama City, in the Panamá Province of Panama. Photo: Aeromar17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Panama Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, popularly called MAC Panamá, is the only museum of contemporary art that exists in Panama. Photo: MACPanama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
National Theatre of Panama
Theater
The National Theatre of Panama is located in the old city of Panama, next to the church of San Francisco and the Plaza Bolívar. Photo: Carlos Siu, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Panama
- Categories: capital, metropolitan area, big city and locality
- Location: Central Panama, Panama, Central America, North America
Localities in the Area
Balboa
Balboa is separated from Panama City by the Cerro Ancon, one of Panama City's skyline landmarks. Photo: Allanes, CC BY 3.0.City of Knowledge
Village
Panama'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. Photo: Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Panama City
Latitude
8.9714° or 8° 58' 17" northLongitude
-79.5342° or 79° 32' 3" westPopulation
881,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
PTYUnited Nations Location Code
PA PTYOpen Location Code
67W2XFC8+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1242998122GeoNames ID
3703443Also Known As
- Achinese: Banda Panama
- Afrikaans: Panama-stad
- Albanian: Qyteti i Panamasë
- Amharic: ፓናማ ከተማ
- Arabic: Syudad han Panamá
- Arabic: بنما
- Arabic: مدينة بنما
- Aragonese: Ciudat de Panamá
- Aragonese: Ziudá de Panamá
- Armenian: Պանամա
- Asturian; Bable: Ciudá de Panamá
- Avaric: Panamá
- Aymara: Panama marka
- Azerbaijani: Panama
- Azerbaijani: Panama şəhəri
- Basque: Panama Hiria
- Belarusian: Панама
- Bengali: পানামা শহর
- Bengali: পানামা সিটি
- Bosnian: Panama City
- Breton: Ciudad de Panamá
- Bulgarian: Панама
- Catalan: Ciutat de Panamà
- Cebuano: Panamá (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Panamá
- Chechen: Панама (гӀала)
- Chechen: Панама
- Chinese: Panama Chhī
- Chinese: 巴拿馬城
- Chinese: 巴拿马城
- Croatian: Panamá
- Czech: Ciudad de Panamá
- Czech: Panamá
- Danish: Panama City
- Dutch: Panama-Stad
- Dutch: Panama-stad
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: پاناما سيتى
- English: Ciudad de Panama
- English: Ciudad de Panamá
- English: Panama
- English: Panamá
- Esperanto: Panamurbo
- Estonian: Panamá
- Fijian Hindustani: Panama City
- Finnish: Panamá
- French: Panama
- French: Panamá
- Frisian: Panama-Stêd
- Gaelic (Scots): Panama
- Gallegan: Cidade de Panamá
- Georgian: პანამა
- German: Panama-Stadt
- German: Panama City
- German: Panamá
- Greek: Πόλη του Παναμά
- Gujarati: પનામા શહેર
- Gujarati: પનામા સિટી
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Panama
- Hakka Chinese: Panama Sṳ
- Hausa: Panama (birni)
- Hausa: Panama
- Hausa: Panama Sṳ
- Hebrew: פנמה סיטי
- Hindi: पनामा शहर
- Hindi: पनामा सिटी
- Hungarian: Panamaváros
- Icelandic: Panamaborg
- Ido: Panama-Urbo
- Indonesian: Kota Panama
- Interlingue: Panamá Cité
- Irish: Panamá
- Italian: Panama
- Italian: Panama City
- Italian: Panamà
- Italian: Panamá
- Japanese: パナマシティ
- Japanese: パナマ市
- Kannada: ಪನಾಮ ನಗರ
- Kazakh: Панама
- Kazakh: Панама қаласы
- Kikuyu: Panama City
- Kirghiz: Панама шаары
- Korean: 빠나마 시
- Korean: 시우다드 데 파나마
- Korean: 파나마 시
- Korean: 파나마시티
- Kurdish: Panama
- Ladino: Sivdad de Panama
- Latin: Urbs Panamensis
- Latvian: Panama
- Letzeburgesch: Panama
- Ligurian: Çittæ do Panamá
- Lithuanian: Panama
- Livvi: Panama
- Lombard: Cità de Panama
- Macedonian: Панама
- Malay (generic): Kota Panama
- Malay (generic): Panama City
- Malayalam: പനാമ സിറ്റി
- Manx: Caayr ny Panamaa
- Marathi: पनामा शहर
- Marathi: पनामा सिटी
- Min Dong Chinese: Panama Chê
- Min Nan Chinese: Panama Chhī
- Mingrelian: პანამა (ნოღა)
- Mingrelian: პანამა
- Mongolian: Панама Хот
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: پاناما سيتي
- Northern Luri: پاناماسیتی
- Northern Sami: Panama gávpot
- Norwegian: Panama by
- Norwegian Bokmål: Panama by
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Panama by
- Novial: Panama Urbe
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Ciutat de Panamà
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Панамæ
- Panjabi: ਪਨਾਮਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ
- Papiamento: Siudad di Panama
- Persian: شهر پاناما
- Persian: پاناماسیتی
- Persian: پاناما سیتی
- Piemontese: Sità ëd Panamà
- Polish: Panama
- Polish: Panama City
- Polish: Panamá
- Portuguese: Cidade do Panamá
- Portuguese: Panamá
- Quechua: Panama llaqta
- Romanian: Ciudad de Panamá
- Romanian: Panama City
- Russian: Панама-Сити
- Russian: Панама
- Samoan: Aai o Panama
- Santali: ᱯᱟᱱᱟᱢᱟ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ
- Sardinian: Panamá (tzitade)
- Sardinian: Panamá
- Saterfriesisch: Panama-Stääd
- Schwyzerdütsch: Panama-Stadt
- Scots: Panama Ceety
- Serbian: Panama
- Serbian: Панама
- Serbo-Croatian: Panamá
- Shona: Panama City
- Sinhalese: පැනමා නගරය
- Slovak: Panama
- Slovenian: Panama
- Slovenian: Panama City
- Spanish: Ciudad de Panama
- Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá
- Spanish: Panama
- Spanish: Panamá
- Swahili (generic): Panama City
- Swedish: Panama City
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Panama
- Tajik: Панама (шаҳр)
- Tajik: Панама
- Tajik: Шаҳри Панама
- 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
- Turkish: Panama Şehri
- Turkmen: Panama
- Udmurt: Панама кар
- Ukrainian: Панама
- Urdu: پاناما شہر
- Uzbek: Panama
- Uzbek: Panama shahri
- Venetian: Panama
- Veps: Panam
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Panama
- Waray (Philippines): Syudad han Panamá
- Welsh: Dinas Panama
- Welsh: Panamá
- Western Panjabi: پانامہ شہر
- Wu Chinese: 巴拿马城
- Yakut: Панаама
- Yakut: Панама
- Yiddish: פאנאמא־שטאט
- Yoruba: Ìlú Panamá
- Yue Chinese: 巴拿馬城
- Panama-urbo
- Panamá (widava)
- Āltepētl Panama
- פאנאמא-שטאט
- पानामा सिटी
Other Places Named Panama City
- Panama CityFlorida, United States
- Panama CityHamlet in Panama
- Panama CityHotel in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Ministerio de una Vida AbundanteChurch
- Alcaldía de PanamáTown hall
- Iglesia Cristo ReyChurch
- Gorgas Memorial LaboratoryGovernment office
Popular Destinations in Central Panama
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