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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Maps calls it the "Persian Gulf (also known as the Arabian Gulf)." There's also a naming dispute over what is widely known as the Sea of Japan — but referred to as the East Sea by ...