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The result of this paper is to generalize a constancy result for harmonic maps from a non-star shaped domain in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) to the sphere \(S^2\) obtained by Chou and Zhu. In Chou and Zhu's paper, they considered that a special class of non-star shaped domains was constructed by rotating a curve carefully by using inversions in Euclidean spaces. The author uses the Pohozaev identity on sub-domains of a Euclidean \(r\)-neighborhood for a closed or broken curve to show that harmonic maps from such domains into spheres with constant boundary value remain constant. He divides the original domain into sub-domains star-sharped with respect to some specific point on a curve, and uses the constancy condition only on a part of the boundary of the sub-domain. For more related papers to refer \textit{K. S. Chou} and \textit{X.-P. Zhu} [Anal. Non Linéaire 12, No. 1, 99-115 (1995; Zbl 0843.35027)], \textit{E. N. Dancer} and \textit{K. Zhang} [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 41 A, No. 5-6, 745-761 (2000)], \textit{F. Bethuel}, \textit{H. Brezis} and \textit{J.-M. Coron} [J. M. Coron and I. Ekeland eds. 1990, Birkhäuser] and \textit{K. Zhang} [EJDE, 1999, No. 33, 1-10 (1999)].