text: Population: 3.11 millions (2005)e with 49 percent of the population living in urban areas\n\nClimate: Tropical, average temperature: 80 degrees F.  The average temperature in the \nmountainous areas is 50 to 60 degrees F.Rainy season: May through early December. \nDry season: mid-December through April.\n\nArea: 75,517 square Km /29,157 square miles\n\nTopography: Mountainous areas, which include the Central Mountain Range, the San \nBlas Mountains and the  Azuero Peninsula Western Mountain range, small hills and vast \nsavannahs near the Pacific coast.  There are over 1,518 islands in the territorial waters \nof Panama.\n\nLanguage: Spanish, with English as a widespread second language.\n\nGovernment: Democratic, Unitary, Republican and Representative.\n\nReligion: 85 percent Catholic, 15 percent Protestant\n\nEthnic Groups: 62 percent Mestizo, 14 percent African, 10 percent White, 5 percent \nMulatto  and 5 percent Indigenous\n\nCurrency: Balboa or U.S. Dollar\n\nEconomy: 75 percent service, 16 percent industry, 10 percent agriculture\n\nInflation Rate: 1.4 percent\n\nUnemployment Rate: 16 percent (2002)e\n\nPrincipal Trade Partners: Export: U.S., Germany, Sweden.        Import: U.S., Japan