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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“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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—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
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The central plains of Asia in his garden,
In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)