The company announced on Monday that Google will rename the GULF of Mexico and Denali Mountain in Alaska in Google Maps once the Federal Map Database reflects the changes requested by the Trump administration.
Google is compatible with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump last week I changed the names of many American landmarks. Follow the executive order with a statement issued by the American Ministry of Interior, which said The name changes are now official The bodies of the American geographical designation were “urgently” to achieve Trump’s order.
“We have a long -term practice to apply names changes when updated in official government sources,” Google wrote in A. mail On x.
The name of the Gulf of Mexico in Google Maps will soon be the “Gulf of America” for American users, which is a completely new name created by the Trump administration.
Denali, the highest peak in North America, will soon appear in Google Maps for all international users as a former Mount Mckinley. The Alaska Mountain Mount McKinley was named in 1917 to honor the twenty -fifth president of America, William McKinley; The peak was renamed to Denali during the Obama administration in 2015. The Trump administration changes it again, though Protests from some members of the Senate in Alaska.
However, not everyone in the world will see the Google Maps of America.
The geographic names that are competing between different countries appear in Google Maps under the official name of each country for its citizens, according to Social media is published from Google. This means that the name of the Gulf of Mexico will not change for Mexican users of Google Maps, where the country’s president, Claudia Shinbum, Trump mocked his suggestion a new name for the water body. In other countries, Google Maps will display the names of America and Mexico to the Gulf side side by side.
Google says it will make these changes when updating the official American designation database, geographic names system or GNIS. Although the Ministry of the Interior announced that the GULF of America and Mount Mckinley’s changes were official on Friday, GNis still reflects that both were called the Gulf of Mexico and Denali as of Monday evening.
