{"id":23298,"date":"2024-05-12T04:19:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23298"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:05:17","slug":"key-facts-about-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Panama<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a country in <strong>Central America<\/strong> located <strong>on the Isthmus of Panama<\/strong>, the narrow bridge of land that connects North and South America.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>bordered by Costa Rica<\/strong> and <strong>Colombia<\/strong> and is situated <strong>between<\/strong> the <strong>Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Embracing the isthmus and more than 1,600 islands off its Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the tropical nation is renowned as the <strong>site of the Panama Canal<\/strong>, which cuts through its midsection.<\/li>\n<li>Most <strong>Panamanians<\/strong> are <strong>descended from indigenous<\/strong>, or native, <strong>people, Europeans, Afro-Caribbeans, and immigrants<\/strong> from all over the world.<\/li>\n<li>Panama has the <strong>largest rainforest in<\/strong> the <strong>Western Hemisphere outside<\/strong> the <strong>Amazon Basin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Panama City<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Language: Spanish<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is the Panama Canal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>constructed waterway<\/strong> that <strong>connects the Atlantic and Pacific<\/strong> oceans across the Isthmus of Panama.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the two most <strong>strategic artificial waterways<\/strong> in the world, the other being the Suez Canal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is approximately <strong>80 kilometers long<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The canal was <strong>built by the United States<\/strong> between 1904 and 1914, and it was officially opened on August 15, 1914.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>owned and administered by the Republic of Panama<\/strong> since the oversight of the Canal was transferred from the United States to Panama in 1999.<\/li>\n<li>The Panama Canal consists of a series of locks that raise and lower the water level to facilitate the passage of ships through the continental divide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Suez Canal?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a 30 km (120 miles)-long artificial sea-level waterway located in Egypt. It connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, a northern branch of the Red Sea. It provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans. It is one of the world\u2019s most heavily used shipping lanes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/panamas-next-president-says-hell-try-to-shut-down-one-of-worlds-busiest-migration-routes\/article68164058.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Panama&#8217;s next president says he&#8217;ll try to shut down one of world&#8217;s busiest migration routes<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama is a country in Central America located on the Isthmus of Panama, the narrow bridge of land that connects North and South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}