Ahead of a May tour of the Middle East, US President Donald Trump revived a long-running dispute over the name of the body of ...

The Persian ... area refer to it as the Persian Gulf dating back to 1507. But some Arab countries have been pushing to have it renamed to the Arabian Gulf for years, CNBC reported. Google Maps ...

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 ...

For users in the United States, the area has sometimes appeared as 'Gulf (Arabian Gulf),' while Apple Maps continues to label it as the 'Persian Gulf. (Shutterstock) For his part, Abbas Araghchi ...

The area has been most widely called the Persian Gulf since roughly the 1700s ... for not naming the body of water altogether on its maps. The White House did not immediately respond to a CNBC ...

President Donald Trump is expected to announce during his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia that he is renaming the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, according to two officials.

The inland sea covers an area of nearly 97,000 square ... Google Maps currently labels the sea as the “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).” Meanwhile, Apple Maps only calls it the “Persian Gulf.” ...

including on agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications shall reflect its renaming." The US Coast Guard's District 8, which oversees the Gulf of Mexico area, said it was ...

and the area is described. From among the other significant deeds written in this field, the world map: Hecataeus (472 to 509 B.C.) can be stated where Persian Gulf has been clearly shown. At the same ...

The area in question had been called Persian ... written in parentheses, below the 'Persian Gulf'. So, while the maps and politics geeks in the UAE or Arab countries think that the site is now ...

In November 2010, a Nicaraguan general cited Google’s map of the border with Costa Rica to justify a reported raid in a disputed area. The dispute over the term “Persian Gulf” is a reminder ...

Iran has warned Google it will face "serious damages" if it does not denote the area as the Persian ... that Google had deleted the Persian Gulf label from its map service. In a rare show of ...