WASHINGTON: Google Maps will change the title of “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” as soon as it’s formally up to date within the US Geographic Names System, Google stated in an X put up on Monday (Jan 27).
The change can be seen within the US, however the title will stay “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico. Outdoors of the 2 international locations, customers will see each names on Google Maps.
The Trump administration’s Inside Division stated on Friday it had formally modified the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, to Mount McKinley.
Google Maps, which is owned by Alphabet’s Google, will make the same change with Mount McKinley.
President Donald Trump ordered the title modifications as a part of a flurry of government actions hours after taking workplace on Jan 20, making good on a marketing campaign promise.
“As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now formally be referred to as the Gulf of America and North America’s highest peak will as soon as once more bear the title Mount McKinley,” the Inside Division stated in a press release final week.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month jokingly advised North America, together with the USA, be renamed “Mexican America” – a historic title used on an early map of the area.
Reached for remark, a Google spokesperson referred Reuters to the corporate’s X put up.
Google has utilized the identical locale-based labelling conventions to different places topic to naming disputes.
Outdoors of Japan and South Korea, the physique of water bordering each nations is listed because the “Sea of Japan (East Sea).”
In 2012, Iran threatened to take authorized motion in opposition to Google over its determination to drop the time period “Persian Gulf” from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula anonymous. The physique of water is now labelled “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)” in different international locations.