Explore Panama in North America

Description and Basic Information

Panama with its capital Panama City is located in North America (Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean). It covers some 78,201 square kilometres (slightly smaller than South Carolina) with 3,292,000 citizens. Spanish and English are the the languages commonly used by the people in Panama. It is charing borders with Costa Rica and Colombia.

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About Panama

The landscape features interior mostly steep, rugged mountains and dissected, upland plains and coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills. The average density of population is about 42 per km². The climate in can be described as tropical maritime with hot, humid, cloudy, prolonged rainy season (May to January), short dry season (January to May). Potential threats by nature are occasional severe storms and forest fires in the Darien area.

To reach someone in Panama dial +507 prior to a number. There are 537,100 installed telephones. And there are 5,677,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".pa". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 110V - 60Hz.

The country consists of 12 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Panama

Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Panama Tourism

P.O. Box 4421
Zone 5
The Republic of Panama

Phone: +507 226 7000
Fax: +507 226 3483

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá

Founded in 1519 by the conquistador Pedrarías Dávila, Panamá Viejo is the oldest European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. It was laid out on a rectilinear grid...

Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection

Coiba National Park, off the southwest coast of Panama, protects Coiba Island, 38 smaller islands and the surrounding marine areas within the Gulf of Chiriqui. Protected from the cold winds and...

Darien National Park

Forming a bridge between the two continents of the New World, Darien National Park contains an exceptional variety of habitats – sandy beaches, rocky coasts, mangroves, swamps, and lowland...

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo

Magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast form part of the defence system built by the Spanish Crown to protect...

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park

The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left their mark, has allowed the fauna and flora of North and South America to interbreed. Tropical rainforests...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Panama

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Panama is growing at an rate of 1.46% (or by 49,898 citizens). Each year 1,569 people leave this country (or 0.50 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 1.51%. Or an total increase of 51,467 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.