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Panaji

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Panaji, India: see Goa Goa , state (2001 provisional pop. 1,343,998), c.1,430 sq mi (3,700 sq km), W India, on the Malabar coast. A former Portuguese colony and Indian union territory, Goa became a state in 1987. The capital is Panaji (Panjim).
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Panaji

 or New Goa

Town (pop., 2001: 59,066), seaport, and capital of Goa, western India. It is on the Arabian Sea at the mouth of the Mandavi River. Panaji replaced Old Goa as the capital of the Portuguese viceroy in the mid-18th century and as the capital of Portuguese India in 1843. It contains colonial houses and plazas and is a popular tourist attraction.


Panjim, Panaji
the capital of the Indian state of Goa (formerly capital of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu until 1987): a port on the Arabian Sea on the coast of Goa. Pop.: 58 785 (2001)

Panaji 

(or Panjim; formerly Nova Goa), a city on the west coast of India. Administrative center of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman (Damâo), and Diu. Population, 34,600 (1960). Panaji is a port on the Arabian Sea.



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Kidnapper Ajay Kaushal was held in Panaji, Goa, after police discovered he had fled the UK before being jailed for 15 years.
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