Provinces of Panama

first-level administrative divisions of Panama

Panama is divided into ten provinces (Spanish: provincias). There are three provincial-level indigenous regions (Spanish: comarcas indígenas, often shortened to comarcas). [N 1]

A map of Panama showing its ten provinces and four provincial-level comarcas indígenas (indigenous regions).

There are also two indigenous comarcas within provinces that are considered equivalent to a corregimiento (municipality).

Provinces change

ISO 3166-2 Province Capital Area[1]
(km2)
Population[1]
(2010 census)
Density
(inh./km2)
PA-1 Bocas del Toro Bocas del Toro 4,657.2 125,461 26.9
PA-2 Coclé Penonomé 4,949.6 233,708 47.2
PA-3 Colón Colón 4,575.5 241,928 52.9
PA-4 Chiriquí David 6,490.9 416,873 64.2
PA-5 Darién La Palma 11,892.5 48,378 4.1
PA-6 Herrera Chitré 2,362.0 109,955 46.6
PA-7 Los Santos Las Tablas 3,809.4 89,592 23.5
PA-8 Panamá Panama City 8,409.3 1,249,032 148.5
PA-9 Veraguas Santiago de Veraguas 10,587.5 226,991 21.4
PA-10 Panamá Oeste La Chorrera 2,880.1 464,038 161.1
Comarcas indígenas
PA-EM Emberá Unión Chocó 4,393.9 10,001 2.3
PA-KY Guna Yala El Porvenir 2,358.2 33,109 14.0
PA-NB Ngäbe-Buglé Chichica 6,814.2 156,747 23.0

Sub-Provinces change

Comarca Province Area[1]
(km2)
Population[1]
(2010 census)
Density
(inh./km2)
Kuna de Madungandí Panamá 2,075.9 4,271 2.1
Kuna de Wargandí Darién 956.4 1,914 2.0

Related pages change

Notes change

  1. In Panama, the comarca indígena is an administrative region for an area with a substantial indigenous population.

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Cuadro 11. Superficie, población y densidad de población en la República, según Provincia, Comarca indígena, Distrito y Corregimiento: Censos de 1990, 2000 y 2010". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Contraloría General de la República de Panamá. Retrieved 11 November 2016.