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Panama

Panama covers about 74,500 km² (28,800 mi²), the 119th largest of the 246 places listed here. That is close to Sierra Leone, at about 71,600 km².

74,500km²Area, main territory
4.6 millionPopulation
2.43In Belgiums

200 km

Panama

Facts

Area, main territory	74,500 km²28,800 mi²
Official area	74,200 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
In Belgiums	2.43
Capital	Panama City
Population	4.6 millionWikidata, 2025
Density	61 people per km²
Latitude range	7°N to 10°N
In other languages	Panamá Español · Panamá Português · パナマ日本語 · 巴拿马中文 · 파나마 한국어
Continent	North America#9 of 27 countries by area

What the numbers say about Panama

Russia, the largest place listed, is 228× the size of Panama.
At 61 people per km², Panama is the 107th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
Panama lies at 9°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
Laid out flat, Panama's main territory stretches about 269 km north to south and 648 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 74,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 74,500 km², to within 2%.

How Panama measures up

Panama holds 0.3% of the land area and 0.8% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Central America it is the 5th largest of 8.

Where it ranks	Figure	Position
Area	74,500 km²	118th of 239
Population	4.6 million	128th of 237
Density	61 per km²	107th of 185
Farthest north	8.5°N	147th of 212

Compared with	Its area	Panama is
Belgium	30,700 km²	2.43× its size
United Kingdom	244,000 km²	0.31× its size
Germany	358,000 km²	0.21× its size
Japan	374,000 km²	0.20× its size
France	548,000 km²	0.14× its size
India	3,151,000 km²	0.02× its size
Brazil	8,473,000 km²	0.01× its size
United States	9,447,000 km²	0.01× its size
Russia	16,980,000 km²	1 in 228 its size

Where Panama sits

Panama's centre lies at 8.5°N, 80.1°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 950 km from the equator.
Its main territory spans 7°N to 10°N, about 270 km from its southern edge to its northern.

Closest neighbours, by distance between centres

On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world

If Panama had other densities

At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Panama would have 93.3 million people. It has 4.6 million.
At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Panama would have 277,000 people. It has 4.6 million.
At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 5.4 million.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
Population: Wikidata, 2025; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
Data built: 2026-11-11

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