Friday, September 20, 2013

Change Label From Persian Gulf To Arabian Gulf In Google Maps

By default, Google select Persian Gulf to be displayed as label on the gulf:

 To change it to Arabian Gulf, just add the following query string to Google map API URL:
region=SA

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&language=SA&region=SA



7 comments:

  1. 5 arabic countries on the gulf and you call it persian ?!?!?!

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    1. It has always been persian and it will stay persian

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    2. Thousands of years ago, those five Arab countries were members of the Persian Empire. The name of the Persian Gulf will always remain the Persian Gulf.

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    3. It's Persian gulf becouse of the history of Iran AND PERSIAN . PERSIAAAAAAA .

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  2. 3000 years ago, when there was no arab country, Persians had the biggest Empire in the world, and that Gulf is Persian Gulf for thousands of years, Arabian Gulf is just Fake

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