Google officially updates name of ‘Gulf of America’
Google Maps users in the US will now see “Gulf of America” displayed over the body of water that was once labeled the “Gulf of Mexico,” AmericanDiary24 informs via The Hill.
Users in Mexico will still see the name “Gulf of Mexico,” and users elsewhere in the world will see both names, written as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).”
The change follows President Trump’s directive on January 20, his first day in office, to rename the gulf to include America’s name. The executive order instructed the Department of the Interior to take all steps necessary to make the change official.
The Interior Department on January 24 issued a press release saying that “the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America.”
The department said the US Board on Geographic Names was working “expeditiously” to update the names of these features in the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and that the changes are “effective immediately for federal use.”
Shortly thereafter, Google said it would officially make the name change for US-based Google Maps users once the name was updated in the GNIS.
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