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 ...

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 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 2006, a commission of UN experts, geographers, geologists, archaeologists and historians concluded, after analysing more than 6,000 maps of the area, that the term Persian Gulf was historically ...

TEHRAN - As we noted during his stay in the region, President Trump forwent wisely tinkering with geographical names and ...

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.” ...

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 ...