Its canal lifts ships 26 m above sea level, and it is one of the few countries where the sun rises on the Pacific.
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Panama
Republic of Panama ยท Panamรก
North America
ยท Central America
0Population
75.42Kkmยฒ of land
$15.73KGDP / person
Panama CityCapital
- ISO codes
- PA ยท PAN
- Density
- 56 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currencies
- Panamanian balboa (PAB), United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +507
- Internet domain
- .pa
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 8.7220ยฐ N, 80.3520ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Panamanian
- UN region
- Americas ยท Central America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $66.8B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Panama stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
130th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world population
Land area
119th
of 242 ยท 0.05% of world land
GDP per person
82nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
146th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Panama
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,246,439 people, the 130th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,808 of everyone alive.
Covers 75,417 kmยฒ, making it the 119th largest country here - about 8.2 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 56 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Panama City, at 8.97ยฐ N, 79.53ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,281,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Colombia and Costa Rica.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Panama.
The currency is the Panamanian balboa (PAB, symbol B/.).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Panama
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UTCโ05:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Panama City
Panama
8.9700ยฐ N, 79.5350ยฐ W
1.28M
2
David
Chiriquรญ
8.4333ยฐ N, 82.4333ยฐ W
110.04K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Panama.