After Gulf of Mexico change, Trump said he would consider changing how US refers to the Persian Gulf. Arab countries want to ...

The name of the body of water has long been a point of contention for many Arab countries, who call it the Arabian Gulf or Gulf of Arabia. Google maps labels the region "Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)," ...

Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia next week. Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of ...

His suggestion to call the body of water the “Arabian Gulf” has apparently done the impossible: Unite Iranians.

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.” ...

and sued Google Maps in 2012 over its decision not to label it at all. Trump waded into the issue early in his first term in 2017 when he alluded to the area as the Gulf of Arabia, causing Iran ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...