Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 16548
Land area (2000): 20.518912 sq. miles (53.143737 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.171015 sq. miles (15.982855 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 26.689927 sq. miles (69.126592 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54700
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 30.174451 N, 85.664480 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 32401 32403 32404 32405
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Panama City
Wikipedia
Panama City ( Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has an urban population of 430,299, and its population totals 880,691 when rural areas are included. The city is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of the country, as well as a hub for international banking and commerce. It is considered a "beta-" world city, one of three Central American cities listed in this category.
The city of Panama has an average GDP per capita of $15,300. It has a dense skyline of mostly high-rise buildings, and it is surrounded by a large belt of tropical rainforest. Panama's Tocumen International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in Central America, offers daily flights to major international destinations. Panama was chosen as the 2003 American Capital of Culture jointly with Curitiba, Brazil. It is among the top five places for retirement in the world, according to International Living magazine.
The city of Panama was founded on August 15, 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the history of the American continent, leading to the fairs of Nombre de Dios and Portobelo, through which passed most of the gold and silver that Spain took from the Americas.
On January 28, 1671, the original city (see Panamá Viejo) was destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacked and set fire to it. The city was formally reestablished two years later on January 21, 1673, in a peninsula located from the original settlement. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins and is now a popular tourist attraction known as Panama Viejo.
Usage examples of "panama city".
Noriega's Dignity Battalions mishandled decent North American women in the streets of Panama City.
You will be flown to Panama City and report to our hospital there.
Fablon by Ricardo Rosales, a Vice-President of the Bank of New Granada, Panama City, in March 18 of this year.
As we neared Panama City, the in-service light flashed on, and I tried Susan again.
Five minutes later, she was aloft on the Beriev Be-210 bound for Panama City.
Monday morning, Kelly's going to start checking customs in Panama City, Mobile, and Tampa to see if anything jumps out at her, but that's really a hope-we-get-lucky tactic.
The Rogaine came from a Panamanian pharmacy and a cardboard coaster came from a Panama City club, but he didn't find anything significant.
Don't know anybody down there in the fucking boonies, but I got a couple of boys on the Panama City force who'll fish around for me.
I told them to stay out of Panama City, to lay off their home brew made from masticated corn and to quit smoking coco leaves.
Treasure from the Panama City cathedral, and wealth belonging to merchants, was loaded onto a galleon.
New North American recruits, battle hardened forces from Central America, where Panama City had fallen and the Canal Zone was once more in American hands, and combat experienced forces in Africa where the offensive into central Africa had gone better than expected, all made up the new allied Asian invasion force.