A pair of American military vessels responding to a mayday call this week saved the crew of a sinking cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. Central Command.

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

Faced with myriad problems including gridlocked traffic and a sinking earth surface in its current capital, Iran is ...

WASHINGTON DC: In line with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump, Google Maps will soon update ... “Sea of Japan (East Sea)” and “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).” ...

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

"When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the US quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America. "When will they be renamed on Google Maps? The Trump Administration said on January 24 ...

If you are in another country, including Pakistan, Google Maps outlines Jammu and Kashmir, as well as Ladakh, with a black dashed line. What Iran calls the Persian Gulf is called the Arabian Gulf ...

The body of water separating Iran from the United Arab Emirates is labelled in Google Maps as the Persian Gulf for people in Canada, but as the Arabian Gulf for people in Arab countries like Lebanon. ...

The body of water separating Iran from the United Arab Emirates is labelled in Google Maps as the Persian Gulf for people in Canada, but as the Arabian Gulf for people in Arab countries like Lebanon.

In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from Maps and leave the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula nameless.