Google switches identify of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America for US customers – INA NEWS

Google has begun calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America following United States President Donald Trump’s government order renaming the physique of water.

The California-based web big stated on Monday that the identify of the gulf on its purposes would depend upon the placement of the person.

“Individuals utilizing Maps within the U.S. will see ‘Gulf of America,’ and other people in Mexico will see ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ Everybody else will see each names,” Google wrote in a weblog submit.

Google flagged its intention to make the change in a submit on X final month, explaining that it makes use of the designations of the Geographic Names Data System (GNIS), a database run by the US Geological Survey.

In the identical X submit, Google stated it could additionally change the identify of Mount Denali in Alaska to Mount McKinley, after former US President William McKinley, as soon as it was up to date within the official database in keeping with Trump’s order.

Trump signed his government order to rename the pure options hours after taking workplace on January 20, casting it as a call to “honour American greatness”.

Mount Denali, the very best peak in North America, was given its identify by the Indigenous Koyukon Athabascan individuals.

The US authorities modified its identify to Mount McKinley in 1917 in honour of the late Republican president, who was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901.

Former US President Barack Obama’s administration restored the mountain’s Indigenous identify in 2015 earlier than a presidential go to to Alaska.

Trump’s determination to rename the pure options drew backlash from Indigenous teams in Alaska and prompted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to sarcastically counsel that North America be renamed “Mexican America”, because it was referred to in one of many nation’s founding paperwork.