Local businesses in Margao
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- IT and company offices: 3
- Spintly India Pvt Ltd; Nippon India mutual fund; Turbosketch
- Government offices: 9
- Civil and Criminal Court; HP Gas; Office of sub divisional engineer; Benaulim panchayat; District Consumer dispute redressal forum; Margao RTO; Water department office; Electricity Department; Income tax department
- Colleges and universities: 5
- Don Bosco College Of Engineering; Rosary College of Commerce & Arts; Kare Law College; Damodar College of Commerce & Economics; Chowgule College
- Workshops and craft businesses: 16
- Anrose; Art Fit Tailor; Chaplin Clothes & Tailor; Dourado Ency Sally; F.X Tailor; Tailor Touch; Amar; Chaplin; Chaplin's Cloth and tailor; Crancy's
- Finance, insurance and legal offices: 10
- Anju S Amonkar; Dr. Celso Fernandes; Emerico Pereira; J. Vaz; Pereiras Portuguese Connection; Advocate and Notary; Borkar's Financial Consultancy; Prasad s. Naik; LIC; Muthoot Finance
- Banks: 64
- Citizen credit cooperative bank ltd; Lokmanya Multipurpose CoOp Society; State Bank of Mysore; Syrian Catholic bank; HERITAGE, GRND FLR, SWANTANTRA PATHOPP.SAPNA TERRACES VASCO-; Lokmanya multipurpose coop society ltd; Madgaum Urban Bank; Madgaum Urban Co Operative Bank (Chairman); NKGSB Coop Bank; The Goa State Urban Coop Bank
- Hospitals: 30
- Dr. Lawande's Hospital; Rebello Hospital; Yashodhan Hospital, South Goa; Adarsh Family Hospital; Arcanjo Menezes Nursing Home; Distict Hospital, South Goa; Dr. Braganza's Maternity Hospital; Holy Spirit Nursing Home; Hospicio Hospital; Kudchadkar Hospital
Margao facts
- Population, 2011 Census
- 87,650
- Area
- about 15.1 sq km, about 10 m above sea level
- People
- 90% literacy
- PIN codes
- 403601 (Margao)
- Places nearby
- Holy Spirit Church (church, 1 km), Dr Rajendra Prasad Stadium (sports venue, 1 km), Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Margao) (multi-purpose stadium, 2 km), Goa Chitra Museum (indian museum, 2 km)
- Culture and food
- Margao is the commercial capital of Goa and is also called the cultural capital of Goa. Ravindra Bhavan at Fatorda is a cultural centre and a venue for the International Film Festival of India, and Nehru Stadium at Fatorda is Goa's biggest sports stadium.
- History
- Margão is the Portuguese spelling. The name may come from Mahargao, the village of the Mahars, or from the Sanskrit mathagrama, a village of monasteries.
- Education
- Margao has many schools and colleges, and most schools follow the Goa Board curriculum.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.