Google Maps said in an X -post on Monday, Google Maps will rename the “Gulf Mexico”, when it is officially updated in the United States’ geographical names (GNIS).
“We have a long -standing process of implementing the name changes when it is updated in government sources,” said a search and Tech Dev spokesman on Monday.
Google said the changes are in line with GNIS’s policy of pursuing by US government geographical officials and will be implemented after the GNIS refreshing.
This change will appear in the United States, but in Mexico the name will remain “Gulf Mexico”. Out of both countries, consumers will see both names on Google Maps.
The Trump administration’s Interior Department said on Friday that it had officially turned the name of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, and that North America’s tallest mountain, Alaska Peak Denali, McKinley, was mounted.
The Interior Department said in a statement last week, “As the president’s directive, the Gulf Mexico will now be officially known as the United States and North America’s highest peak once again named Mount McCainley. “
Google Maps, owned by the alphabet Google, will bring similar changes to Mount Mac Canali.
Hours after taking office on January 20, President Donald Trump ordered changes to the name as part of the executive action, making the campaign’s promise good.
The first change changes the then President Barack Obama’s 2015 2015 decision, which formally recognizes Danieli, the name has been used by Alaska locals for centuries for the top of North America.
The second order will name the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, in which the executive order cited its importance to US oil production, fishing and tourism.
The Gulf of America’s term soon by the US Coast Guard implementing Trump’s new crackdown with immigrants, as well as Florida’s Republican governor, Ron Dysntis, when talking on the winter storm, Florida’s Republican Governor , Used in a press release by Ron Dysntis.
These measures have given rise to criticism from indigenous groups in Alaska, who have long advocated for maintaining Danali’s name and raised diplomatic concerns with Mexico.
Mexico’s President Claudia Shenbam advised North America with joke earlier this month, which will change the name of “Mexican America”, including the United States – this is a historical name used on the initial map of the region. It happens.
Google spokesperson cited, arrived for comment Reuters On the company’s X post.
Google has applied the same local -based labeling conventions to other places that are subject to conflict.
Outside Japan and South Korea, the body of the water connected to both countries has been listed as the “Sea of Japan (East Sea)”.
In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google on the decision to quit the term “Persian Gulf” from Google Maps against Google and leave the waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
The body of the water is now labeled in other countries the “Persian Gulf (Persian Gulf”.
