The Gulf of Mexico as seen on Google Maps.
Supply: Google Maps
Google mentioned Monday it’s going to change the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps after the Trump administration updates its “official authorities sources.”
The corporate additionally mentioned it’s going to begin utilizing the identify “Mount McKinley” for the mountain in Alaska at the moment referred to as Denali.
Final week, President Donald Trump signed govt actions that included an order to make the identify modifications on official maps and federal communications.
“We have acquired a number of questions on naming inside Google Maps,” the corporate mentioned in an X publish. “We’ve a longstanding apply of making use of identify modifications after they have been up to date in official authorities sources.”
Google added that the identify Gulf of Mexico will stay displayed for customers in Mexico. Customers in different nations will see each names, the corporate mentioned.
Trump mentioned he’ll restore former President William McKinley’s identify to the mountain. He mentioned McKinley made the nation “very wealthy” by means of tariffs and expertise.
The mountain was named Mount McKinley till 2015, when President Barack Obama’s administration modified it to Denali as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives.
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