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What is Isthmus of Panama? State its significance.​

Answer 1

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It contains the country of Panama and the Panama Canal. Like many isthmuses, it is a location of great strategic value. The isthmus is thought to have been formed around 2.8 million years ago, separating the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and causing the creation of the Gulf Stream.

Answer 2

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The continent of North America is linked with South America by the Isthmus of Panama. It is a narrow land mass between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that separates the two continents.

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Panama Canal built in the Isthmus of Panama:-

Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904.

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It allows ships to go from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific without sailing around South America. ... With different routes across the jungles of Panama, it played an important role in the Spanish World Empire, the development of the United States of America and 20th century globalization.