The Trump administration announced on Friday that the Gulf of Mexico was The Gulf of America was renamedBut the common appointment services from Google and Apple continued to show the old name.
On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display the GULF of America once the United States government updates its official maps.
“We have a long -term practice to apply names changes when updated in official government sources,” the company He said in a post on x.
President Trump signed an executive order on January 20, his first day in office, to rename the Gulf, in addition to changing the name of the longest mountain in North America. That peak, known as the original Denali in Alaska since 2015, has been renamed, Mount Mckinley, the previous name.
US Interior Ministry He said on Friday It was implementing the executive matter, but official government maps have not yet been updated from the geographical names information system, or GNis, which is part of the American geological survey.
Google said as soon as GNis changes, it “quickly” follows its example in the application of the famous maps, a decisive source of information about geography for more than a billion users. The company said it will also change the name of Denali, located in Alaska, to Mount McKinley, according to the change of the new administration.
While Google users in the United States will see the name of the Gulf of America, those in Mexico will continue to see the “Gulf of Mexico”, which indicates this country.
The company said that users elsewhere in the world Sirunan both names are side by side. The name of the Gulf of Mexico will appear first for these users, followed by the name of the Gulf of America in brackets, two people said that the company’s plans, who were not allowed to speak publicly.
Google refused to comment on the arrangement of names. Apple representatives did not respond to the request to comment on whether the company will adopt the name of the Gulf of America to apply its maps.
Three people who have knowledge of the company’s policies said that Google Maps routinely use different names to refer to the same places, depending on the user’s location, especially if there is a political geopolitical conflict. The water body between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran was subjected to naming disputes for decades. Google is called the Gulf under two names for international users: “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).” In the Arab countries near the body of water, it calls it Google Maps in the Persian Gulf.
When the Obama administration changed the name Alaska Mountain from Mount McKinley to Denali in August 2015, Updated Google Maps To reflect the name change after three days.
Kate Conger and Mike Isaac The reports contributed.
