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Ɡ o Ʊ West India Konkan Maharashtra Karnataka Arabian Sea India State Fourth Smallest by Population

Goa is India's smallest state by area and fourth smallest by population. Located along India's western coast on the Arabian Sea, Goa has a long history of Portuguese colonial rule and remains culturally influenced by Portugal. It has a highly developed economy and ranks as India's richest state. Tourism is a key industry in Goa, with visitors attracted to its beaches, churches, and biodiversity.

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Ɡ o Ʊ West India Konkan Maharashtra Karnataka Arabian Sea India State Fourth Smallest by Population

Goa is India's smallest state by area and fourth smallest by population. Located along India's western coast on the Arabian Sea, Goa has a long history of Portuguese colonial rule and remains culturally influenced by Portugal. It has a highly developed economy and ranks as India's richest state. Tourism is a key industry in Goa, with visitors attracted to its beaches, churches, and biodiversity.

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Goa

/o./ is a state located in the West India region of the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian

Sea forms its western coast. It is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Goa is India's richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country
as a whole.[4] It was ranked the best placed state by the Eleventh Finance Commission for its infrastructure and ranked on top for the best quality of life in India by the National Commission on
Population based on the 12 Indicators. [4]

Panaji is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is the largest city. The historic city of Margao still exhibits the cultural influence of the Portuguese, who first landed in the early 16th century as
merchants and conquered it soon thereafter. Goa is a former Portuguese province; the Portuguese overseas territory of Portuguese India existed for about 450 years until it was annexed by
India in 1961.[5][6]

Goa is visited by large numbers of international and domestic tourists each year for its beaches, places of worship and world heritage architecture. It also has rich flora and fauna, owing to its
location on the Western Ghatsrange, which is classified as a biodiversity hotspot.

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