California-based internet giant says the name of the body of water will depend on the user’s location.
Published On 11 Feb 2025
Google has begun calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America following United States President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the body of water.
The California-based internet giant said on Monday that the name of the gulf on its applications would depend on the location of the user.
“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 flagged its intention to make the change in a post on X last month, explaining that it uses the designations of the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), a database run by the US Geological Survey.
In the same X post, Google said it would also