The Isthmus of Panama, also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

There are, for example, over 978 species of birds in the isthmus area.

By about 4.5 million years ago, an isthmus had formed between North and South America.

They migrated south through North America, and eventually reached South America through the Isthmus of Panama.

The Finnish attack continued towards a hotel located on a thin isthmus between the two lakes.

The Isthmus was known in the ancient world as the landmark separating Peloponnese from mainland of Greece.

With a total surface area of 139,000 km2, Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American isthmus.

The Leningrad Front () was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).

Geophysically, some geographers include the territory east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (around 12 of the total) within Central America.

In 1671 the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan crossed the Isthmus of Panamá from the Caribbean side and destroyed the city.

Scientists believe the formation of the Isthmus of Panama is one of the most important geologic events in the last 60 million years.

The Panama Canal is a man made waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean at the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama.

Within three years of the fall of Tenochtitlan the Spanish had conquered a large part of Mexico, extending as far south as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Though only a small sliver of land relative to the sizes of continents, the Isthmus of Panama had an enormous impact on the earth's climate and environment.

Already weak and inefficient, prone to corruption, politicisation, lack of co ordination between departments, and outright intimidation of its officials, judicial systems across the isthmus have been an easy target for organised crime.

During the decade the Panama Canal expansion works were taking place, more than 2,200 different archeological objects were found and classified, thus telling the commercial history of the isthmus of Panama since pre Columbian times

Within a few years of its founding, the city became a launching point for the exploration and conquest of Peru and a transit point for gold and silver headed back to Spain through the Isthmus.

The peninsula is connected to the Kherson Oblast's Henichesk Raion, and thus the European mainland, via the Isthmus of Perekop, a strip of land about wide, as well as by bridges over the narrow Chongar and Henichesk straits.

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513 after crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and Juan Díaz de Solís died in Río de la Plata in 1516 while exploring South America in the service of Spain.

In nearby Thailand, China has invested 20 billion in a plan to build a canal across the Kra Isthmus to connect the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Siam, thereby providing an alternate oil import route that avoids the Strait of Malacca.

Mr. Oyarzún (Spain) said that Spain's claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar referred not only to the Rock of Gibraltar, which had been ceded under article 10 of the Treaty of Utrecht, but also to the Isthmus, whose occupation by the United Kingdom it had never recognized.