It is official: Google has now changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in Google Maps for American users, after US President Donald Trump ordered the name of the water group.
During Trump’s opening speech in January, he said it would change the name of the Gulf.
“After now, we will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” he said.
Hours after an executive order to do so.
In a post on X on January 27, Google said that He has a “long -term practice to apply name changes when they are updated in official government sources.” The company said the maps will reflect any updates for Geographical names information systemDatabase of more than a million geographical features in the United States.
On Monday, Google followed the updated site list in the geographical names information system after changing the new description of the Gulf to: “The Gulf of America, previously known as the Gulf of Mexico, with an average of 5300 feet is a major body of water bordered by nearly North America with beaches Eastern, north and northwestern Gulf in the United States and its southern and southern beaches in Mexico.
It is also noted that the change is compatible with Trump’s order, entitled “Restore the names that honor the American greatness.”
Change does not affect what other countries call the water body or how it appears on Google Maps in other regions of the world. For Canadians, it appears to be “Mexico Bay (Gulf of America)” when using Google Maps.
Google Maps are now displaying “Mexico Bay (Gulf of America)” to the users of Canadian Google Maps.
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“The names you see in the MAPS app are based on your country, which is determined by information from your phone’s operating system (for example, iOS and Android), including SIM, your network and station,” Google said in a statement Monday. “If you use Google Maps on the web, the names will be based on the area you determine in the search settings or your device’s location, if you don’t have selected one.”
American federal aviation management also He issued a notification On Monday regarding changing the geographical name.
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She said: “Please note that FAA is in the process of updating our data and plans to show the change of the name from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and change the name from Denali to Mount McKinley.”
In another major change, the Google and Mobile Records include references to the first day of the month of black history or the month of pride, among other events.
The company was in the past that the days were marked in the beginning of February and June, but it did not appear for 2025. I mentioned for the first time The removal operations of the Google Calendar at the end of last week, during the beginning of the month of black history.
Google spokesman told the director that the changes occurred in the middle of last year.
“A few years ago, the calendar team began to add a broader group of cultural moments in a large number of countries around the world,” the spokesman said in an email. “We have received comments stating that some events and other countries were missing – and maintained hundreds of moments manually and consistently in the world were not developmental or sustainable.”
Therefore, in mid -2014, we went back to show only public holidays and national celebrations from Timeanddate.com Globally, while allowing users to add other important moments manually, “added Google’s spokesperson.
The company, which was also removed on the first day of the month of the history of women in March, fell in the month of the original peoples in June, from its qualitative goals, fairness and integration after Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the federal DEI programs and order “the end of the” DEI Radical and Sacred Programs and prefer “.
–With files from the Associated Press
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