It lies in the deltas of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, an indistinct triangle of vast fields, islands of trees and small towns extending south from Memphis for about 200 miles, covering an area about 70 miles wide on both sides of the Mississippi.
Draped over the back of the boat, a sheet of newspaper and its reflection in the river form additional, smaller triangles.
Black triangle = Lithuanian Neman river (LN); empty circle = Swedish Morrum river (SM); gray diamond = Polish hatchery Aquamar (PHA); empty square = Polish hatchery Gabriel (PHG); grey star = Polish Slupia river (PS).
The base of this triangle is marked by river Ajoy separating the boundary of Birbhum with Burdwan district.
The double menace of insect plague and drought damage spreads across the nation's agricultural section in the shape of a triangle bordered by the Ohio and Missouri Rivers and the Canadian border.
Somewhere north and west, in the "Sunni triangle" between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and further north around the oil cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, some criminals who left Abu Ghraib have enlisted in the anti-American underground, American officials say.
Vespasian crossed the river in 74 and annexed the Agri Decumates, the triangle of land between the Rhine, Danube, and Main rivers.
While fishing one day, I watched some bulls make their way down to a triangle of fence that reached into the river.
To the east he saw more water than he remembered, open Gulf running all the way to the orange triangle marking the eroded mouth of the river.
The most important mines are in the Singleton Muswellbrook Denman "triangle," but the mines on the lower river between Cessnock and Maitland were important in establishing the Newcastle iron and steel industry.
Pittsburgh, city, seat (1788) of Allegheny county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S. The city is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which unite at the point of the "Golden Triangle" (the business district) to form the Ohio River.
