Panamanians

Panamanians
Panameños

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Total population
Panama          4,279 million
Regions with significant populations
United States	99,764[1]
Costa Rica	13,711[1]
Spain	5,730[1]
Colombia	3,123[1]
Canada	2,814[1]
Mexico	1,767[1]
Italy	1,102[1]
Ecuador	1,008[1]
Venezuela	828[1]
Germany	811[1]
United Kingdom	789[1]
Dominican Republic	789[1]
Brazil	660[1]
Peru	644[1]
Switzerland	588[1]
France	582[1]
El Salvador	458[1]
Nicaragua	423[1]
Honduras	406[1]
Netherlands	390[1]
Guatemala	321[1]
Sweden	319[1]
Australia	289[1]
Belgium	211[1]
Argentina	161[1]
Greece	158[1]
Bolivia	121[1]
Denmark	101[1]
Norway	85[1]
Jamaica	74[1]
Languages
Panamanian Spanish (predominantly) Bocas del Toro Creole, Guaymí and other Amerindian languages
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism[2] Judaism, Protestantism, Santería, Baháʼí
Related ethnic groups
Afro-Panamanians, Nicaraguans, Costa Ricans, Colombians, and other Latin Americans

Panamanians (Spanish: Panameños) are people identified with Panama, a country in Central America (which is the central section of the American continent) and with residential, legal, historical, or cultural connections with North America. For most Panamanians, several or all of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their Panamanian identity. Panama is a multilingual and multicultural society, home to people of many different ethnicities and religions. Therefore, many Panamanians do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Panama. The overwhelming majority of Panamanians are the product of varying degrees of admixture between European ethnic groups (predominantly Spaniards) with native Amerindians (who are indigenous to Panama's modern territory) and Black Africans.

The culture held in common by most Panamanians is referred to as mainstream Panamanian culture, a culture largely derived from the traditions of the Indigenous people and the early Spanish settlers, along with other Europeans arriving later such as Italians, with west African culture as another important component.