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ID: 7005565
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Record Type: administrative |
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Panama (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 09 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 9.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 080 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -80.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by Cuna, Guaymí & Chocó peoples when Spaniards arrived in 16th cen.; native population was decimated, Africans were brought here as slaves; Scottish company attempted colony 1698; part of viceroyalties of Peru & New Granada 18th-19th cen.; official language is Spanish, though English is a common second language. |
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| Panamá (preferred,C,V,Spanish-P,U,N)
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| República de Panamá (C,V,Spanish,U,N)
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| Panama (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Panama (French-P,U,N)
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| Republic of Panama (C,O,English,U,N)
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| République du Panama (C,O,French,U,N)
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| PAN (C,O,ISO3L)
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| PA (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO591 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| PM00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Darién (H,V)
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| Panamanian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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independent from Spain in 1821, from Greater Colombia in 1903 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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