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#India's small western state of #Goa is probably one of its most widely visited #tourist spots, with 7 million visitors in 2019 alone. But few people know that it was the only Indian state to live under Portuguese - not British - colonial rule. Goa only joined independent India in 1961, 14 years after the rest of the country. Long famous as a hippie paradise, today Goa still attracts dreamers from all over the world and remains a cultural melting pot of Indian and Portuguese traditions.
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