One of the first things President Trump did after taking office was announce plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The names of geographic locations are arbitrary — chosen and abandoned by humans, changing as power and culture shift.
Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has written to Google and told them not to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...
But Mexico argues the U.S. cannot legally change the Gulf's name because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory only extends up ...
The US Department has said the process of implementing the new names is in continuation - but the official maps of the locations by the government are not done yet.
Apparently, the very name “America” was sort of an accident by mapmakers back in the 1500s, starting when German cartographer ...
Google Maps renamed the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ for U.S. users, following a directive from the Trump administration.
Google Map users will soon notice the name changes of two historic U.S. landmarks: The Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali. As of ...
Google says it will display the names "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley" to the US users of its Google Maps service if ...
Google has reclassified the United States as a “sensitive country”. This change in naming led to the speculation that it is ...