Yes, Google Maps is renown The “Gulf of Mexico” at the “Gulf of America”, but you will not see it yet when you open the application. In a series of tweets, the news from the Google account revealed that the MAPS application would deploy an update with the name change after the US government has updated the information system on geographic names (GNI), which serves as “federal and national standard for geographic nomenclature.” Google Maps will also change the name of the highest mountain peak in North America from Denali, the name given to it by Alaska Aboriginal people, to climb McKinley when the GNI reflects its new official designation.
When this happens, we will quickly update Google Maps in the United States to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.
– Google news (@newsfromgoogle) January 27, 2025
Google said it was a long -standing practice for the company to apply name changes in cards after being updated in official government resources. President Donald Trump signed an executive decree last week to change the name of the body of water and the interior department announcement Friday that he is now officially known as the Gulf of America.
However, only users in the United States will see it labeled as such. It will always be called the Gulf of Mexico for Mexico users, while users from the outside of one or the other country will see the two names in their Google Maps application. Google said that another official practice for a long time is to show official local names when they vary between countries and as Reuters Notes, he applied the rule to many other areas with names of denomination and territorial disputes like the Japan Sea.
