UNITED NATIONS Working Paper
GROUP OF EXPERTS ON No. 61
GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
Twenty-third Session
Vienna, 28 March – 4 April 2006
Item 14 of the Provisional Agenda:
Activities relating to the Working Group
on Exonyms
Historical, Geographical and Legal Validity of the Name: PERSIAN GULF
Prepared Working Group on Exonyms, Iran
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Historical, Geographical and Legal Validity of the Name :
PERSIAN GULF
Introduction
Geography, as the most ancient human knowledge is an applied science which has different
aspects. It studies the reciprocal relation of man and nature and provides the results to the
users in the form of documents in writing, books and maps.
The names of features and phenomena including natural or man made ones have been
considered by geographers for a long time, therefore similar features are distinguished by it.
