The company Googlewhich includes one of the most important Internet search engines in the world, has decided to use the name of Gulf of America replacing Gulf of Mexico following the orders issued by the US president, Donald Trump.
As explained on Tuesday the multinational in the social network X, Google has decided to update the name of the Gulf on its maps for the United States, since this is the current official name of the Gulf for the country.
“We have received some questions about the names on Google Maps. We have a long data practice when applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources“Google explains in your message.
Thus, the company announces that following these official sources, an update of what called Geographic Name Information System (GNIS) will be produced in the United States.
And this will affect the Monte McKinley, located in Alaska, formerly called Monte Denalim, and the Gulf of America, known worldwide for centuries as Gulf of Mexico.
However, American technology warns that changes They will only affect users who access maps in the United Statessince in the rest of the world the two denominations will be maintained.
Therefore, remember that “when official names vary between countries, users of ‘Maps’ see the official local name. In the rest of the world, all see both names. This also applies in this case.”
Trumpamong his first initiatives after assuming the position on January 20, he decided to change the name to the Gulf of Mexico to call him ‘Gulf of America’and eliminate the indigenous denomination that Barack Obama granted to the highest mountain in the country, Denali, in Alaska.
He did it to return his previous name to that mountain, who honored President William McKinley (1897-1901), whom Trump admires for his use of tariffs as a political tool and his colonialist history.
