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 mentioned in an X publish on Monday (Jan 27).
The change shall be seen within the US, however the title will stay “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico. Outdoors of the 2 nations, customers will see each names on Google Maps.
The Trump administration’s Inside Division mentioned 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 an analogous change with Mount McKinley.
President Donald Trump ordered the title adjustments as a part of a flurry of govt 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 generally known 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 mentioned in an announcement final week.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month jokingly advised North America, together with america, 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 publish.
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 towards 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 nations.
