• The Menemen!
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    1 month ago

    It is not a country. So there is nothing like a UN defined name. So no one can force any country to name it the way they want. Don’t think it’s Trump decision. Maybe the U.S. Board of Geographic Names?

    Like you call it Persian Gulf, other countries call it Gulf of Arabia, and Turkey actually even calls it Gulf of Basra. (Btw, you legally have to call it Türkiye nowadays. It actually “changed it’s birth certificate” at the UN. Doubt you care about that.)

    • @qarbone
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      21 month ago

      Do you call it the “Gulf of America”?

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        Nope. In non of my languages is that the official name. But tbf, I am not sure if I ever called it anything. It is quite far away from here.