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Encyclopedia: Goa (10069 words) |
 | Goa's main rivers are the Mandovi, the Zuari, the Terekhol, Chapora and the Betul. |
| Goa is India's richest state with a GDP per capita one and a half times that of the country as a whole, and one of its fastest growth rates: 8.23% (yearly average 1990-2000). |
| Panaji is the headquarters of the north Goa district and Margao of the south district. |
| GOA - LoveToKnow Article on GOA (3179 words) |
| Goa Settleinent.With Damaun (q.v.) and Did (q.v.) Goa settlement forms a single administrative province ruled by a governor-general, and a single ecclesiastical province subject to the archbishop of Goa; for judicial purposes the province includes Macao in China, and Timor in the Malay Archipelago. |
| Old Goa is, for the most part, a city of ruins without inhabitants other than ecclesiastics and their dependents. |
| The social life of Goa was brilliant, as befitted the headquarters of the viceregal court, the army and navy, and the church; but the luxury and ostentation of all classes had become a byword before the end of the 16th century. |
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