Goa (ind)

Goa

Goa ranks 10,559th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Decize, Mardan, and Goodwater, Alabama. Memorable people born in Goa include Roberto de Nobili, and Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi. Memorable people who died in Goa include Afonso de Albuquerque, Pedro Mascarenhas, and António de Andrade. Goa has been the birth place of many religious figures, and writers and the death place of many noblemen, and explorers. Goa is located in India.

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bordered by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the east and south, with the Arabian Sea forming its western coastline. It is India's smallest state by area and fourth-smallest by population. Panaji is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is its largest city by population. The state's official language is Konkani, spoken by the majority of its inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia