The main channels that cross the mountains of Panama are well above sea level. Ships are raised to reach them, then lowered back down at the other end. To dig a sea-level canal would have required the removal of an impossibly large amount of rock.
Locks are only needed when the ships need to be raised and lowered in altitude because of the terrain the canal crosses.
No. The Panama Canal passes through Panama.
Panama lol. Isn't that kind of obvious.
Nicaragua. I found that out in my report for the Panama Canal. =D
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Panama is the only country the canal passes through. There was initially interest (a bit of which remains to this day) of building the canal through Nicaragua - there are three proposals being 'floated' around in Nicaragua currently to build a new trans-oceanic passing, but the Panama Canal only goes through Panama.
Panama! :)
Obviously.
The Atlantic Ocean is connected to the Pacific Ocean through a narrow canal called the Panama Canal. From the Caribbean Sea on the Atlantic side, the canal cuts through Panama, to the Pacific Ocean.