On Monday, the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, joined “First Buddy” Elon Musk to watch Trump be inaugurated as the 47th president. Musk later stole the headlines following an appearance at a rally in which he made an “odd salute”.
Though U.S. maps will reflect Trump's new name for the body of water, the rest of the world will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico
Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps.
Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps.
The search and advertising giant said it would change its Google Maps names to Mount McKinley and Gulf of America once they’re officially changed by federal officials.
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Google Maps will soon show the "Gulf of Mexico" as the "Gulf of America" for users within the United States. The change follows a recent executive order by US President Donald Trump, with Google confirming the update on Monday.
The U.S. government is already working to remove all mentions of the Gulf of Mexico name in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday (local time).
The federal government, including the military, is changing the name on maps to "Gulf of America." Even Google suggested it would make the change.
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