Following President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the body of water, Google has begun calling it the Gulf of Mexico.
The internet giant, based in California, announced on Monday that location of the user would affect the name of the gulf on its applications.
“People using Maps in the U. S. will see ‘ Gulf of America, ‘ and people in Mexico will see ‘ Gulf of Mexico. ‘ Everyone else will see both names”, Google wrote in a blog post.
Google stated in a post on X last month that it uses the designations of the US Geological Survey’s (GNIS), a database, to make the change.
After updating the official database in accordance with Trump’s order, Google announced in the same X post that it would also change the name of Mount Denali in Alaska to Mount McKinley, named after former US President William McKinley.
On January 20, Trump signed his executive order to rename the natural features, citing the decision to “honor American greatness.”
Mount Denali, the highest peak in North America, was given its name by the Indigenous Koyukon Athabascan people.
In honor of the late Republican president, who was murdered by an anarchist in 1901, the US government changed its name to Mount McKinley in 1917.
Former US President Barack Obama’s administration restored the mountain’s Indigenous name in 2015 before a presidential visit to Alaska.
Source: Aljazeera
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