Chinese government has announced it would “standardise” the names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh.
On Sunday, the Chinese Government released a list of the 11 places along with a map that shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh inside the southern Tibetan region, that China refers to as Zangnan, the Hindu reported.
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs even included a town close to the Arunachal Pradesh capital of Itanagar.
This is Beijing’s third such list on Arunachal Pradesh, attempting to “rename” places by giving them what it calls “standardised geographical names”.
In 2017, the Chinese Ministry of Civilian Affairs put out a similar list of six places, and in December 2021, released a list of 15 places that it sought to rename.
The third batch of supplementary place names for public use in southern Tibet (11 in total) is now officially announced.”
The 11 places named include five mountain peaks, two more populated areas, two land areas and two rivers.
The claimed geographical area has always been controlled and administered by India.
The Ministry of External Affairs, the newspaper said, didn’t respond to requests for a comment on the announcement from Beijing, but has rejected similar renaming and standardisation attempts in the past.