Panama City

Panama

Panama City, also known as Panama, is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a total population of 410,354 in the city proper and 1,086,990 in the Panamá District, which includes the outer corregimientos of the city. The metropolitan area has over 2,100,000 people. The city is at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama.

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Country: Panama
Population: 1,281,000
Latitude: 8.97° N
Longitude: 79.54° O

Which way is Panama City from…

From Paris, Panama City lies at 270° to the west, 8,665 km as the crow flies.

Paris	270° west	8,665 km
London	267° west	8,496 km
New York	190° south	3,572 km
Madrid	268° west	8,165 km
Rome	278° west	9,510 km
Montreal	190° south	4,102 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	262° west	15,019 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

By compass, Panama City is due west of London, at 267°, 8,496 km away, whereas a flat map would point you south-west, at 237°. The shortest route crosses the whole North Atlantic before ending in the Caribbean Sea. Another curiosity: Panama City’s antipode is 767 km from Jakarta, and its latitude is that of Addis Ababa.