The National Geographic
Atlas of the world named
Persian Gulf by
Arabian Gulf in its latest edition. In addition to that they have called three islands in the
Persian Gulf officially known as territories of Iran as "occupied by Iran". As far as I know there has never been any dispute over those three islands until a few years ago that UAE claimed those islands. However I am not aware of details. In protest to that Iranian bloggers decided to achieve a
Google bomb targeted the phrase
Arabian Gulf.
Here you can find the detailed map published by NGA.
P.S. It seems that Iranian bloggers
succeeded. The website "
Arabian Gulf" appears as the first entry of Google when you search for
Arabian Gulf.
BBC's news about the googlebomb
Other websites targeting the same phrase:
Arabian Gulf,
Arabian Gulf,
Arabian Gulf
P.P.S. Here is a snapshot of the page, protesting
Arabian gulf.
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