Following a Trump executive order, Google Maps will update the names of the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' and Mount Denali to 'Mount McKinley' in the United States. Google stated that these changes reflect updates in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and will be reflected quickly in Google Maps for U.S. users.
Trump ’s executive order, signed on inauguration day, directed that “the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico … officially be renamed the Gulf of America.”
“We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” tech giant Google said in a post on the social media site known as X.Google said its policy is to update names when the Geographic Names Information System in the United States is updated.
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