An Iranian Judiciary official said that efforts to alter the name of the Persian Gulf stem from hostility and enmity towards ...

President Donald Trump reportedly plans to announce that the U.S. will officially start referring to the Persian Gulf as the 'Arabian Gulf,' according to The Associated Press. The move would be a diss ...

Persian Gulf ... Sea or West Philippine Sea China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei have competing claims over this strategically important waterway in the Pacific Ocean. China ...

Even European colonial powers, including the British Royal Navy, used "Persian Gulf" in their official maps and guides from 1868 onward. The "Arabian Gulf" misnomer Historically, the term "Arabian ...

The Greek historian Strabo used it in the 1st century AD, but he was referring to what is now known as the Red Sea ... term Arabian Gulf. Today, Google Maps uses the term Persian Gulf, with ...

Google Maps labels the water body “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)”. The sea that is bound by Japan and the Korean Peninsula is ...

Meanwhile, Apple Maps only calls it the “Persian Gulf.” This aerial photograph taken on January 18, 2024, shows a view of the city of Yanbu at the Red Sea, at the end of the stage 11 between ...

The Persian Gulf has been ... China issued a map in 1947 detailing its claims over a vast majority of the area with the so-called nine-dash line and calls it the South Sea, while the Philippines ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Google Maps ... the "Sea of Japan (East Sea)." In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from ...

In that period, both the names Persian and Arabian Gulf appear in texts. However, the latter referred to an area that roughly equated to the Red Sea. The world maps of the Greek historians and ...

Iran has never objected to the use of names such as the Sea of Oman, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, or Red Sea ... the fact that the Persian Gulf wasn't labeled on its map. Google Maps currently ...