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Goa is a small state on India's southwest coast along the Arabian Sea. It has the highest GDP per capita of any Indian state and was rated as having the best quality of life in India. Panaji is the capital and Vasco da Gama is the largest city. Goa was a Portuguese colony for over 450 years until it was annexed by India in 1961.

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Goa is a small state on India's southwest coast along the Arabian Sea. It has the highest GDP per capita of any Indian state and was rated as having the best quality of life in India. Panaji is the capital and Vasco da Gama is the largest city. Goa was a Portuguese colony for over 450 years until it was annexed by India in 1961.

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Goa (/ˈɡoʊə/ (About this soundlisten)) is a state on the southwestern coast of

India within the region known as the Konkan, and geographically separated from the
Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.[8][9] It is surrounded by the Indian states
of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the east and south, with the Arabian
Sea forming its western coast. It is India's smallest state by area and its fourth-
smallest by population. Goa has the highest GDP per capita among all Indian states,
[3][10] two and a half times as high as the GDP per capita of the country as a
whole.[11] The Eleventh Finance Commission of India named Goa the best-placed state
because of its infrastructure, and India’s National Commission on Population rated
it as having the best quality of life in India (based on the commission’s “12
Indicators”).[11] It is the third-highest ranking among Indian states in human
development index.[4]

Panaji is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is its largest city. The
historic city of Margão in Goa still exhibits the cultural influence of the
Portuguese, who first voyaged to the subcontinent in the early 16th century as
merchants, and conquered it soon thereafter, whereupon Goa became an overseas
territory of the Portuguese Empire, part of what was then known as Portuguese
India, and remained as such for about 450 years, until it was annexed by India in
1961.[12][13] Goa’s official language, which is spoken by a majority of its
inhabitants, is Konkani.

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