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Usgao is a village in Ponda taluka,
North Goa district North Goa district is one of the two districts that constitutes the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of , and is bounded by Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgavi district of Karnataka ...
, India. For the purposes of the census, it is considered a "Census Town". It is part of the Usgao-Ganjem Village ''Panchayat''. In the 2011 Census, Usgao was found to have an area of 25.40 square kilometres, with a total of 2,867 households, and a population of 12,436 persons comprising 6,370 males and 6,066 females. The zero-to-six age group population comprised 1,254 children, of these 614 were males and 640 females. Usgao (together with Ganjem) was sought to be included in the newly-formed Dharbandora ''taluka''. But a May 2011 Goa government decision accepted to retain this ''panchayat'' area within Ponda ''taluka'' or sub-district.


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Cities and towns in North Goa district {{Goa-geo-stub