Google mentioned on Monday that it’s going to change the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps as soon as it’s up to date within the U.S. Geographic Names System.
Google Maps may also change the identify of Denali in Alaska to “Mount McKinley.”
“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,” the corporate mentioned in an X publish.
However customers in different international locations will see each names displayed on the map in step with an extended standing observe, the corporate mentioned.
President Donald Trump ordered the identify adjustments the day of his inauguration final week, making good on his marketing campaign promise. The federal authorities has since formally applied the directive to rename each.
The Gulf of Mexico change is new, however naming the nation’s highest peak has been a matter of debate for years.
The Obama administration determined to formally identify it Denali in 2015, the identify that native Natives as soon as used.
Former President McKinley, for whom the mountain is as soon as once more named, by no means visited Alaska. His identify was first used for the summit in an article written by a gold prospector in 1897 and was popularized after his 1901 assassination.
The Hill has reached out to Google for remark.
