Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive order and is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
The Gulf of Mexico will appear as the Gulf of America to US users of the Google Maps app.
Those in Mexico will see the original name.
The company posted on a social media platform that it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
The announcement that came out yesterday is in accordance with an executive order that President Donald Trump signed to rename the gulf. Google will also change the name of Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.