Gold Coast

Gold Coast is a popular name for various areas and cities around the world which are located along the coast of an ocean or some other significant body of water.

Places

Africa

(The) Gold Coast was the European name for part of the coast of the West African Gulf of Guinea, named after a major commodity (like Ivory Coast, Slave Coast), essentially present Ghana, parts of which in colonial days constituted:
* Gold Coast (British colony), the colonial name of present Ghana during the British colonial period, which had gradually absored the other colonies
*Danish Gold Coast
*Dutch Gold Coast
*Portuguese Gold Coast
*Prussian Gold Coast (originally Brandenburger Gold Coast)
*Swedish Gold Coast, absorbed by Danish Gold Coast

Asia

* Hong Kong Gold Coast, which is located in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.
* Tainan Gold Coast,which is located in South District, Tainan City, Taiwan.

Australia

* Gold Coast, Queensland - the city and popular tourist destination in Australia

United States

* Gold Coast, Florida, the Florida east coast from Miami to West Palm Beach
* Gold Coast, California, the central California coast from Monterey to Ventura.
* Gold Coast, New Jersey, Hudson County's waterfront (across the Hudson River from New York City)
* Gold Coast, Chicago - upmarket area along Lake Shore Drive
* Fairfield County in Connecticut is often referred to as the Gold Coast.
* The Long Island North Shore is also known as the Gold Coast.
* The Orange Coast of Orange County, California is sometimes described as a Gold Coast.
* The "Gold Coast" is a longstanding term in Cambridge, Massachusetts for an area on and near Mt. Auburn Street, where containing many socially elite clubs and private dormitories inhabited by Harvard students.

Europe

Also known as the Gold Coast in English are:
* Côte-d'Or is a département in the eastern part of France
* The Costa Dorada, Spain

Other

The Gold Coast is a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
*Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
*Gold Coast Ocean Fest, a yearly event taking place in Croyde, Devon, UK.
Gold Coast is a novel by novelist Elmore Leonard
The Gold Coast is a novel by novelist Nelson DeMille