.panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the pacific and set on the atlantic .the canal h=generates fully one-third of panama's entire economy .panama was the first latin american country to adopt the u.s. currency as its own .the population of panama in 2016 was estimated by the united nations at 3,990,000, which places it as number 132 in population among the 233 nations of the world, the smallest population in central america
