Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali on its maps for users in the U.S. following President Trump's controversial executive order.
After taking office, President Donald Trump ordered that the water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba be renamed to the Gulf of America. He also ordered America’s highest mountain peak be changed back to Mt. McKinley.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum shared a letter to Google, arguing that the tech giant should follow rules set by the U.N. that relate to naming bodies of water instead of following Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America," the Interior Department stated in a statement last week. Google responded by noting that the change complies with its longstanding policy of aligning map labeling with updates in official government databases.
Though U.S. maps will reflect Trump's new name for the body of water, the rest of the world will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico
Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has protested Google’s decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico as Trump has unilaterally decreed.
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The company said that Maps will reflect any updates to the Geographic Names Information System, a database of more than 1 million geographic features in the United States.
For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico, and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said.
Chevron Corp. has begun using “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” in its earnings materials after President Donald Trump ordered the US to rename it.