Short Notes || Golden Crescent

          The golden crescent is the name given to one of Asia’s two principal areas of illicit opium production, located at the crossroads of Central South and Western Asia. This space overlaps three nations: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, whose mountainous peripheries define the crescent, though only Afghanistan and Pakistan

Short Notes || Golden Triangle

          The Golden Triangle is one of Asia’s two main illicit opium-producing areas. It is an area of 950,000 Km² that overlaps the mountains of four countries of Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.