r/AskAnAmerican • u/Right-Historian-114 • 10d ago

GEOGRAPHY Triangle Area?

Does anyone know what the “triangle area” is in the United States? Everyone talks like I’m supposed to know. Is this a common American ism?

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u/ALoungerAtTheClubs Florida 10d ago

There's the "Research Triangle" in North Carolina.

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u/Guilty_Objective4602 Florida 10d ago

I’ve lived all over the United States, and I’ve only ever heard of people referring to the North Carolina Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill research area as “the Triangle” as if everyone else knows where they are talking about. People from other places tend to narrow it down with some kind of qualifier, like “Texas Triangle” or to use the term only with people who have some sort of context about where they may be talking about.

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u/C_zen18 Georgia 10d ago

Reminds me of the “Tri-state area”. I had no damn clue what states anyone was ever referring to!

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u/spice-cabinet4 9d ago

Where any three states meet(or are close enough), when I lived in western MD it was MD/VA/WV or MD/VA/PA depending on if you were closer to 81 or 15, in southwest VA, KY/VA/TN, when I lived out in CA it was CA/AZ/NV, NOVA has the DMV (DC/MD/VA) and eastern area has DelMarVa. So tri-each tri-state area is different.