Goa
South Goa
Salcete

Margao

Margao is the second largest city in the state of , 33 km from the state capital . It is Goa's cultural and commercial capital, and is close to the central coast.
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  • Type: Town with 107,000 residents
  • Description: second largest city in Goa
  • Also known as: “Dongorwado”, “Madgaon”, and “Margão”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and Madgaon Junction railway station.

Stadium
Photo: Vrlobo888, Public domain.
Fatorda Stadium, officially known as , is a multi-purpose stadium in Margao, Goa, India. The venue has been used to host both football and cricket matches.

Railway station
Photo: Sreejithk2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway junction and major station on the Indian Railways network, specifically on the South Western Railway line to and the Konkan Railway, in Madgaon, , India.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Goa Chitra is an ethnographic museum based in the former Portuguese colony of . It has a large collection—over 4000 artefacts—focusing on Goa's traditional agrarian technology and lifestyle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benaulim and Colva.

Photo: Ray Swi-hymn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village with 13,000 people on the beach in . A popular seaside resort in South Goa district, it is renowned for its balmy weather, golden sands, and palm-fringed beaches. It also houses the Don Bosco Animation Centre.

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is a coastal village situated in the Salcete taluka, in , of state on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. Beach spans about 2.5 km along a sandy coastline of approximately 25 km extending from in the north to in the south.

Suburb
is a census town and fast growing suburb of the city of Margao located in the Salcete sub-district of , , India. It has a large parish and has played a crucial rule in South Goa politics at some stage.

Margao

Latitude
15.2729° or 15° 16′ 23″ north
Longitude
73.9583° or 73° 57′ 30″ east
Population
107,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN MRG
Open location code
7J7M7XF5+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2548066557
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1264588
Wiki­data ID
Q515117
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Margao” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مارجاو”
  • Arabic: “مارغاو”
  • Asturian: “Margao”
  • Bengali: “মারগাও”
  • Bishnupriya: “মারগাও”
  • Bulgarian: “Мадгаон”
  • Catalan: “Margao”
  • Catalan: “Margão”
  • Cebuano: “Madgaon”
  • Central Bikol: “Margao”
  • Chinese: “Margao”
  • Chinese: “馬果”
  • Chinese: “馬高”
  • Chinese: “马尔加奥”
  • Chinese: “马高”
  • Czech: “Margao”
  • Danish: “Margao”
  • Dutch: “Margao”
  • Finnish: “Margao”
  • French: “Margao”
  • Georgian: “მარგაო”
  • German: “Margao”
  • Goan Konkani: “Moddganv”
  • Goan Konkani: “Modganv”
  • Goan Konkani: “मडगाव”
  • Goan Konkani: “मडगांव”
  • Greek: “Μαργκάο”
  • Gujarati: “મડગાંવ”
  • Gujarati: “મારગાઓ”
  • Hindi: “मडगाँव”
  • Hindi: “मडगांव”
  • Hungarian: “Márgáo”
  • Italian: “Margao”
  • Japanese: “マーガオ”
  • Japanese: “マドガーオン”
  • Japanese: “マルガオ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಡಗಾಂವ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಗಾವೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಗೋವಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “مارگاو”
  • Korean: “마르가오”
  • Ladin: “Margao”
  • Malagasy: “Margao”
  • Malay: “Margao”
  • Malayalam: “മഡ്ഗാവ്”
  • Marathi: “मडगांव”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Margao”
  • Newari: “मार्गांव”
  • Newari: “मुरगांव”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Margao”
  • Norwegian: “Margao”
  • Oriya: “Margao”
  • Oriya: “ମାର୍ଗାଓ”
  • Pampanga: “Margao”
  • Persian: “مارگائو”
  • Polish: “Margao”
  • Portuguese: “Madgaon”
  • Portuguese: “Margão”
  • Romanian: “Madgaon”
  • Russian: “Маргао”
  • Sanskrit: “मठग्रामः”
  • Sanskrit: “मडगांव”
  • Spanish: “Margao”
  • Swedish: “Madgaon”
  • Tagalog: “Margao”
  • Talysh: “Margao”
  • Tamil: “மட்காவ்”
  • Tamil: “மார்கோ”
  • Telugu: “మార్‌గావ్”
  • Telugu: “మార్గోవా”
  • Urdu: “مارگاو”
  • Vietnamese: “Margao”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Margao”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Margao”. Photo: Francisco Restivo, CC BY 2.0.