Google is saying goodbye to the Gulf of Mexico. Moving forward, Google Maps will call it the Gulf of America, the tech giant announced Monday, a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming it on his first day back in office.
“We have received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” Google posted on X. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
Google also said it would be changing Denali — the tallest mountain in North America — back to Mt. McKinley, following a different executive order from Trump. The Alaska mountain had been renamed in 2015 to Denali by then-President Barack Obama; it was initially named after President William McKinley in 1896.
The new changes had not gone into effect on Google Maps by Monday afternoon; Google said it would be updating its app “quickly” to reflect the new names.