Guwahati, April 4: In its latest attempt to reaffirm its claim over the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, China has released a third batch of standardised geographical names for 11 localities in the Indian State.

The names were released by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs on April 2, complying with State Council laws on geographical names.

China refers to Arunachal Pradesh as “Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet.

The official names of the 11 places were released on Sunday by the ministry, which also gave precise coordinates, including two land areas, two residential areas, five mountain peaks and two rivers and listed the category of places’ names and their subordinate administrative districts, state-run Global Times reported on Monday.

This is the third batch of standardised geographical names for Arunachal Pradesh issued by China’s civil affairs ministry. The first batch of the standardised names of six places in Arunachal was released in 2017, and the second batch of 15 places was issued in 2021.

India has previously dismissed the Chinese move of renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh, asserting that the state has “always been” and will “always be” an integral part of India and that assigning “invented” names does not alter this fact.