It’s official: Google has now changed Gulf of Mexico At Gulf of America In Google Maps for American users, according to the American president Donald Trump Executive organization to modify the name of the body of the water.
During Trump’s inaugural speech in January, He said he would change The name of the Gulf.
“In a short time, we are going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of America,” he said.
A few hours later, he signed a decree to do so.
In a post on X on January 27, Google said it “a longtime practice to apply name changes when they have been updated in official government sources”. The company said the cards will reflect all the updates of the Information system on geographic namesA database of more than a million geographic characteristics in the United States.
Monday, Google followed the list of updated sites in the information system on geographic names after changing the new description of the Gulf: “The Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, with a Average depth of 5,300 feet is a major body of bordered water and almost landlocked by North America with the eastern banks, north and northwest of the Gulf in the United States and its southwest and southern banks in Mexico. »»
He also notes that the change is in accordance with the order of Trump, entitled “Restoring names that honor American greatness”.
Change does not affect what other countries call the water body or how it appears on Google Maps in other areas of the world. For Canadians, it appears as “Gulf of Mexico City (Gulf of America) when using Google Maps.
Google Maps now displays “Golfe of Mexico (Golfe of America)” for Canadian users of Google Maps.
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“The names you see in the MAPS application are based on the location of your country, which is determined by information from the operating system of your phone (for example, iOS and Android), including your SIM, your network and your parameter “,” Google said in a press release Monday. “If you use Google Maps on the web, the names are based on the region you select in your search settings or the location of your device, if you have not selected.”
The Federal Aviation American Administration published an opinion Monday concerning geographic name changes.
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“Please note that the FAA is updating our data and our graphics to show a change of name from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and a change of name from Denali to Mont McKinley”, he declared.
In another major change, Google’s online and mobile calendars no longer include references on the first day of the month or month of the pride of black history, among other events.
The company previously had these days marked in early February and June, but they do not appear for 2025. reported for the first time The moves of the Google calendar at the end of last week, at the beginning of the month of black history.
A Google spokesperson told the point of sale that the changes had taken place in the middle of last year.
“A few years ago, the calendar team began to manually add a wider set of cultural moments in a large number of countries around the world,” said the spokesperson in an email. “We have obtained comments according to which certain other events and countries lacked – and maintain hundreds of moments manually and consistent in the world was not evolving or lasting.”
“Thus, in mid-2014, we returned to show only public holidays and national observances of Timeanddate.com Globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments, “added Google spokesperson.
The company, which also suppressed the first day of the month of women in March and the month of indigenous peoples in June, fell from its objectives of diversity, equity and inclusion after Trump signed a decree To dismantle DEI federal programs and order the “end of radical and useless government programs”.
–With files from the Associated Press
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