Opium production in Myanmar is the world's second-largest source of opium after Afghanistan, producing some 25% of the world's opium, forming part of the Golden Triangle. The majority of the region's opium is now produced in Myanmar and, to a lesser extent, Laos. Most of the world's heroin came from the Golden Triangle until the early 21st century when Afghanistan became the world's largest producer. The name "Golden Triangle" was coined by the CIA and is commonly used more broadly to refer to an area of approximately 950,000 square kilometres (367,000 sq mi) that overlaps the mountains of the four adjacent countries.Īlong with Afghanistan in the Golden Crescent, it has been one of the largest opium-producing areas of the world since the 1950s. Its geographical limits are the area in which the borders of China, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet at the confluence of the Ruak and the Mekong Rivers. The Golden Triangle is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Crescent).
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