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 Michiel Sweerts. 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 bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the east and south, with the Arabian Sea in the west. It is India's smallest state by area and fourth-smallest by population. Goa has the highest GDP per capita among all Indian states, two and a half times as high as the GDP per capita of the country as a whole. 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. It is the second-highest ranking among Indian states in the human development index. Read more on Wikipedia