Why is Panama City, Florida, named Panama?
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Hate to tell you this, but America has a lot of names of other Country's cities, towns, states ect. ect.
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This will depend on where in Panama you are but basically, it is due to the hook shape of the archipelago that Panama is on.  At one point, there is a curve that allows an arm of the Atlantic to extend southward, ending up on the west side of the land.  That same curve allows an arm of the Pacific to extend northward, placing it on the east side of the land.  If you are standing at this land point, you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.
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Florida is derived from "flowery Easter" in Spanish.  The name comes from the fact that Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast during the Easter season ("Pascua") on April 2, 1513.  In respect of the season and the beautiful flowers he saw, he named this land "Florida."
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From Miami, Fl, USA to Colon, Panama is 1129 miles (1816 km) (981 nautical miles)\n\nto Panama City, Panama is 1150 miles (1851 km) (1000 nautical miles)
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It's called a Palindrome. As you say, a palindrome can be a word or a phrase:\n\ncivic\nA man, a plan, a canal. Panama!\n\nHope this helps...
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Because the USA's name actually has the word America in it. I.E. The United States of America. Someone from Canada is known as Canadian, so on and so on. It would be silly to call us "Staters" or something like that. When referring to the whole North American continent people often refer to everyone as "North Americans".
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There probably is no reason.  How many would drive from North America to South America to begin with?  You might find some (most people fly), but probably not enough to make the whole thing economically feasible to begin with.  \n\nThe reason a country, such as Panama, wouldn't build it is because they see no reason for building it.  They are going to be concerned with roads they need to serve the people who live there and pay the taxes, not people from other countries who only want to pass through.
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the word liberia come from the word liberty, the love of liberty brought us here, the quotes of the free slave that went to liberia, they came from the south.the capital is monrovia, name after the 5 president of the united state james monroe.
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The U.S. was founded and developed by people from England and the rest of Europe.  So when they came to name a town, they often used names from "the old country," in part because they were homesick, and in part because they simply liked that town in the old country.  That's why so many names in America start with New:  New York, New England, New Jersey, etc.  You can pretty much tell where the immigrants came from by the nature of the town names.  For example, guess where the immigrants in the Santa Cruz Mountains came from, with names like Bonny Doon, Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond, Highlands Park . . .
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Nearly 500 rivers lace Panama's rugged landscape. Mostly unnavigable, many originate as swift highland streams, meander in valleys, and form coastal deltas. However, the Río Chepo and the Río Chagres are sources of hydroelectric power. \n\nThe Río Chagres is one of the longest and most vital of the approximately 150 rivers that flow into the Caribbean. Part of this river was dammed to create Gatun Lake, which forms a major part of the transit route between the locks near each end of the canal. Both Gatun Lake and Madden Lake (also filled with water from the Río Chagres) provide hydroelectricity for the area of the former Canal Zone. \n\nThe Río Chepo, another major source of hydroelectric power, is one of the more than 300 rivers emptying into the Pacific. These Pacific-oriented rivers are longer and slower running than those of the Caribbean side. Their basins are also more extensive. One of the longest is the Río Tuira, which flows into the Golfo de San Miguel and is the nation's only river navigable by larger vessels
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Panama is an amazing country-there are treasures everywhere you look.  The beauty of the oceans, scuba diving, the sunsets, the rainforests, the wildlife, the Indians-Kuna and San Blas both make beautiful art...molas are very colorful and they make them in in form of tapestries and clothing. There is plenty of gold, at very reasonable prices.  The culture in and of itself is amazing-Panama is so incredibly diverse.  There are ruins from the time of Henry Morgan-the Pirate, Ft. San Lorenzo....there's too much to name.  If you haven't travelled there, seize the opportunity!
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The founding of Tallahassee as capitol was largely a matter of convenience. In 1821, Florida was ceded by Spain to the United States. A territorial government was established, but the impracticalities of alternately meeting in St. Augustine and Pensacola — the two largest cities in the territory at the time — led territorial governor William Pope Duval to appoint two commissioners to establish a more central meeting place.\n\nIn October of 1823, John Lee Williams of Pensacola and Dr. William Simmons of St. Augustine selected the former Indian settlement of Tallahassee as a suitable place due to its location halfway between the two cities. Their decision was also based on its location near a waterfall — now referred to as the Capital Cascades — and its status as the old capital of the Apalachee chiefdom. In March of 1824, it was formally proclaimed the capital. Florida did not become a state, however, until 1845. It doesn't seem as if serious consideration was given to locating the capital at Tavares.
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so what look at the name of the town El Cenizo.....who do you think named it that Christopher Columbus.........DUH
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Panama. You americans are so bloody insular!
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It is a shortening of Philadelphia.  It would be like the San Francisco team to be called the Friscos or the Cincinnati team being called the Cincies.
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Daytona, Panama City, Miami (South Beach), Fort Lauderdale, and sometimes even Pensacola
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because it comes from the latin word for island: ISOLA. when the word got anglicised the s remained.