Google Maps has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and President Donald Trump rapidly bragged concerning the change that was his doing.
‘GULF OF AMERICA!’ wrote Trump on his Fact Social platform together with a display seize of the physique of water named precisely that in Google Maps.
The change was made on Monday, after Trump signed an govt order to rename the oceanic basin that’s principally surrounded by Mexico and the US.
A Google search of Gulf of Mexico additionally yields Gulf of America.
Google beforehand mentioned that it follows ‘a longstanding follow of making use of identify adjustments after they have been up to date in official authorities sources’.
Nonetheless, it’s only customers within the US who will see it named Gulf of America. Customers in Mexico will nonetheless see it labeled Gulf of Mexico, and people in the remainder of the world will see it as ‘Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)’.
Google in a weblog put up famous that it rolled out the adjustments as a result of ‘the Geographic Names Data System (GNIS) has formally up to date’ the identify.
Trump in his Fact Social put up shared a hyperlink to a White Home web page on presidential actions that declared February 9, 2025, as the primary ever Gulf of America Day.
‘As my Administration restores American delight within the historical past of American greatness, it’s becoming and applicable for our nice Nation to come back collectively and commemorate this momentous event and the renaming of the Gulf of America,’ wrote Trump.
It’s not the one change that Google has made to its platforms since Trump started his second time period.
The Google Calendar now not consists of Black Historical past Month, Pleasure Month, Girls’s Historical past Month, Indigenous Individuals Month, Jewish Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
‘Some years in the past, the Calendar staff began manually including a broader set of cultural moments in a large variety of international locations around the globe,’ Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld instructed The Verge on Friday.
‘We acquired suggestions that another occasions and international locations have been lacking — and sustaining a whole bunch of moments manually and constantly globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.’
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