Map of Panama

Panama is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 9.0° N, 80.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Colombia and Costa Rica — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Panama is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Panama shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Panama covers about 75,417 km² (29,119 sq mi). That makes it the 116th-largest country in the world by area and the 8th-largest in North America, larger by area than 15 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 4,064,780, the 128th-largest in the world and the 12th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Panama has an average population density of about 54 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 12th by population and 8th by area.

The seat of government is Panama City, and the official currency is the Panamanian balboa (PAB, B/.), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Panama carries the ISO country codes PA and PAN, dials on the international calling code +507 and uses the .pa internet domain.

Panama shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Colombia (capital Bogotá, about 53,057,212 people) and Costa Rica (capital San José, about 5,309,625 people).

By area, Panama is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 9.0° N, 80.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Panama within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Panama City. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Panama lies about 999 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Panama keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Panama recognises more than one official currency: Panamanian balboa (PAB, B/.) and United States dollar (USD, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +507 and websites commonly use the .pa internet domain.

In short, Panama is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Panama City. Panama has a population of about 4,064,780 and covers around 75,417 km² (29,119 sq mi), ranking it 128th in the world by population and 116th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Panama.

The flag of Panama is composed of four equal rectangular areas — a white rectangular area with a blue five-pointed star at its center, a red rectangular area, a white rectangular area with a red five-pointed star at its center, and a blue rectangular area — in the upper hoist side, upper fly side, lower fly side and lower hoist side respectively.

The flag of Panama is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.