Google Maps to change name of Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump order - Change, which will only be visible to US users, comes after president signs executive order renaming body of water ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S.

Google’s maps division has reclassified the United States as a “sensitive country,” a designation it typically applies to nations with strict governments or border disputes, CNBC reported on Monday.

Google's order states that the Gulf of America title change should be treated similar to the Persian Gulf, which in Arab countries is displayed on Google Maps as the Arabian Gulf. "We've received a ...

"We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," Google wrote in a post on X.

The Trump administration has declared that the Gulf of Mexico had been renamed, making good on a campaign promise.

In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term “Persian Gulf” from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula ...