Goa is a small state located on India's western coast along the Arabian Sea. It has the highest GDP per capita of any Indian state and the third highest Human Development Index ranking. Goa has a tropical climate with hot and humid weather for most of the year, and receives over 90% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season from June to September. The state has a long coastline and beaches that attract many domestic and international tourists each year.
Goa is a small state located on India's western coast along the Arabian Sea. It has the highest GDP per capita of any Indian state and the third highest Human Development Index ranking. Goa has a tropical climate with hot and humid weather for most of the year, and receives over 90% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season from June to September. The state has a long coastline and beaches that attract many domestic and international tourists each year.
Goa is a small state located on India's western coast along the Arabian Sea. It has the highest GDP per capita of any Indian state and the third highest Human Development Index ranking. Goa has a tropical climate with hot and humid weather for most of the year, and receives over 90% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season from June to September. The state has a long coastline and beaches that attract many domestic and international tourists each year.
Goa is a small state located on India's western coast along the Arabian Sea. It has the highest GDP per capita of any Indian state and the third highest Human Development Index ranking. Goa has a tropical climate with hot and humid weather for most of the year, and receives over 90% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season from June to September. The state has a long coastline and beaches that attract many domestic and international tourists each year.
Today I am here to say about a beautiful place GOA. INTRUDUCTION ● Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the region known as the Konkan, and geographically separated from Deccan highlands by the western Ghats. ● It is India’s smallest state by area and it’s fourth-smallest by population. ● It has highest GDP per capita among all Indian states. ● It is the 3rd-highest ranking among Indian states in human development index. ● Goa’s official language, which is speaking by a majority of it’s inhabitants -> is KONKANI. ● Goa is visited by large numbers of International and domestic tourist each year because of it’s white-sand beaches, active night life, places of worships, etc……. It also have rich in flora and fauna because it lies on the Western Ghats range. HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ABOUT GOA ● Rock art engravings found in goa are the earliest known traces of human life in India. ● Goa, situated within the Shimoga-Goa Greenstone belt in Western Ghats. ● In the 3rd century BC, Goa was part of the Maurya Empire, ruled by the Buddhist emperor, Ashok of Magadha. ● Over the next few centuries, Goa was successively ruled by the Kadambas as the feudatories of the Chalukyas of Kalyani. They patronised Jainism in Goa. ● Goa is a part of the costal country known as the Konkan, which is an escarpment rising up to the Western Ghats range of mountains. Goa has a coastline of 160 km [99 mi]. MORE ON GEOGRAPHY ABOUT GOA ● Most of the Goa’s soil cover is made up of laterites rich in ferric-aluminum oxides and reddish in colour. ● Goa has more than 300 ancient water tanks built during the rule of the Kadamba dynasty and over 100 medicinal springs. ● Some of the oldest rocks in the Indian subcontinent are found in Goa between Molem and Anmod on Goa’s border with Karnataka. HOW THE CLIMATE IS IN GOA? ● Goa feature a tropical monsoon climate under the Koppen climate classification. ● Goa, being in the tropical zone and near the Arabian Sea, has a hot and humid climate for the most of the year. ● The state’s three seasons are southwest monsoon period (June-September), post-monsoon period (october-January), and pre-monsoon period(February-May). ● Over 90% of the average annual rainfall [3,000 mm or 120 in] is received during the monsoon season. EDUCATION ● Goa had India’s earliest educational institutions built with European support. ● Medical education began in 1801 with the offering of regular medical courses at the Royal and Military hospitals in the old city of Goa. ● According to the 2011 census, Goa had a literacy rate of 87%, with 90% of males and 84% 0f females being literate. ● There are govt. Polytechnic institutions in Panaji, Bicholim and Curchorem, and aided institutions like Father Angel Polytechnic in Verna and the Institute of Shipbuilding Technology in Vasco Da Gama which impart technical and vocational training. In some cases, Goan students do students exchange programs in Potugal. POPULATION AND LANGUAGES ● A native of Goa is called a Goan. Goa has a population of 1.459 million residents as of 2011, making it fourth least populated state of India after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. ● The migrant, or non-Goan Indan origin, the population is currently over 50% of resident population, outnumbering the native ethnic Goan population. ● Konkani is spoken as a first language by about 66.11% of the people in the state, but almost all Goans can speak and understand Konkani. ● Historically, Konkani was neither the official nor the administrative language of many rulers of the state. Under the Kadambas, the court language was Kannada. THANK YOU FOR GIVING THIS OPPORTUNITY