Asia
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia), named for its opium production
- Golden Triangle (Yangtze), named for its rapid economic development
- Golden Triangle (India), comprising the popular tourist spots Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
- Golden Triangle (Kuala Lumpur), the official name for a newer commercial quarter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. See List of embassies in Kuala Lumpur.
- Minnan Golden Triangle, economic production area in the Fujian province of China, includes Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou
- Golden Triangle, nickname for Liaoning in northeastern China, named for its superior geographical location
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“[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)