Persia and the name of a province of Iran (viz., Pars) are from the same root, and may cause confusion. The exonym Persia comes from Pars but the meaning shifted to refer to the whole country. In Western languages, all famous cultural aspects of Iran have been recorded as Persian (e.g., Persian carpet, Persian Gulf, Persian cat, Persian New Year, Persian language, Persian cuisine, Persian literature, Persian melon, Persian Empire, etc.)[12]