Goa is a state in India.

Goa or GOA may also refer to:

Places

  • Goa, Botswana, a small town in Botswana, near the Namibian border, near the Caprivi Strip
  • Goa, Camarines Sur, a municipality in the Philippines
  • Goah, Pakistan, a village in Punjab Pakistan
  • Sultanate of Gowa, a kingdom in the South Sulawesi region of what is now Indonesia
  • Goa-eup, a town in Gumi, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
  • Goa, Burkina Faso
  • Related to the state of Goa in India
  • Portuguese Goa, Portuguese possession, the name was often used for the whole of Portuguese India
  • Goa, Daman and Diu, a short lived Indian Union Territory
  • Ilhas de Goa (also known as Tiswadi), a sub-district within Goa
  • Goa (island) (Ilha de Goa), an island in Nampula, Mozambique.
  • Nova Goa (also known as Panjim or Panaji), the current capital of the state of Goa
  • Velha Goa (also known as Old Goa), the former capital city of Portuguese India
  • Goa Velha, a village on the island of Goa, which was once a suburb of the former capital

Abbreviations

  • Gates of Agony, a professional wrestling tag team
  • Gene ontology Annotation, the practice of capturing data about a gene product
  • General of the army, a military rank used in some countries to denote a senior leader
  • Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport located west of Genoa, Italy, by IATA code
  • Government of Afghanistan, a country in central Asia
  • Government of Alberta, a province in Canada
  • Government of Australia, the federal government of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Grade of Automation (GoA) for trains
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Gun Owners of America, a gun rights organization in the United States
  • Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (for Sankt Goar, German vehicle registration plate code)

People with the surname

  • Daniel Goa (born 1953), New Caledonian politician
  • Trygve Goa (1925–2013), Norwegian printmaker

Film

  • Goa (2010 film), an Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film by Venkat Prabhu
  • Goa (2015 film), an Indian Kannada-language romantic comedy film by Surya

Music

  • Goa (soundtrack), soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja for the 2010 Indian film
  • "Goa", a track from the Frank Zappa album Guitar
  • Goa trance, a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India
  • Go A, a music band that represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Nature

  • Goa (antelope), also known as the Tibetan Gazelle, a species of antelope in and around Tibet
  • Goa bean, another name for the winged bean

Other uses

  • Goa, a board game by Rüdiger Dorn
  • Goa, the gaming division of Orange/France Telecom
  • Goa, name of the Mahindra Scorpio SUV in Italy
  • S-125 Neva/Pechora, a Soviet surface-to-air missile system with NATO reporting name SA-3 Goa

See also

  • Goas (disambiguation)
  • Gao (disambiguation)