Google faced blowback on social media Monday after it announced it would comply with President Donald Trump ’s executive order and ― on its Google Maps service ― rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and revert to referring to Alaska’s Denali as Mount McKinley.
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"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.
Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.
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Google Maps will make the controversial move to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America following US President Donald Trump’s executive order. Last week President Trump made a range of sweeping executive orders hours into his second term,
After Donald Trump recently entered the White House, after winning the presidential elections in the United States of America, the new president has set to work to make all the cha
This story incorporates reporting fromUSA Today, NBC New York, Deadline.com, Yahoo and tyla.Google announced plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Maps application, aligning with a recent executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
President Trump signed an executive order last week to symbolically change the name of the Gulf which borders the US and Mexico.
Even before taking office, President Trump ordered the renaming of the body of water bordered by the southern United States, Mexico, and Cuba. | ITV National News
“Denali” is the mountain’s preferred name for Alaska Natives. Former President Barack Obama ordered it changed in 2015 from its previous name “McKinley,” which was a tribute to President William McKinley, designated in the late 19th century by a gold prospector.