{"id":5488,"date":"2025-02-11T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/google-maps-now-shows-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america-for-app-users-in-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:11:30","slug":"google-maps-now-shows-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america-for-app-users-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/google-maps-now-shows-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america-for-app-users-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps now shows Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America for app users in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of President Trump&#8217;s controversial <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/interior-department-gulf-of-mexico-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">executive order<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to rename the body of water.<\/p>\n<p>Google made the change starting Monday. It followed an updated site listing for the Gulf in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/tools\/geographic-names-information-system-gnis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Geographic Names Information System<\/a>, a government database run by the Interior Department that includes descriptions and location information for more than a million places in U.S. territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The system&#8217;s new description for the Gulf, an ocean basin that shares nearly equal lengths of shoreline with the U.S. and Mexico, reads: &#8220;The Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, with an average depth 5300 ft is a major body of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America with the Gulf&#8217;s eastern, northern, and northwestern shores in the U.S. and its southwestern and southern shores in Mexico.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The description notes that the change complies with Mr. Trump&#8217;s order titled &#8220;Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness,&#8221; which he signed on Inauguration Day. Google previously acknowledged Mr. Trump&#8217;s executive order would affect what U.S. users see in their Maps applications but said the company <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/google-maps-us-gulf-of-mexico-america-denali-mount-mckinley\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">would take its cue from the Board on Geographic Names<\/a><\/span>, which handles federal nomenclature, to act on the directive.<\/p>\n<p>Although people accessing Google Maps from inside the U.S. will see the name Gulf of America, users in Mexico will continue to see the basin&#8217;s earlier title. Maps users everywhere else in the world will see both names, Google said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-original\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/2025\/02\/11\/a682088b-596e-4623-b6a2-459b011eec90\/google-maps.png?v=905524240eba4a810b7648f150c98fe0#\" alt=\"google-maps.png \" width=\"1408\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/2025\/02\/11\/a682088b-596e-4623-b6a2-459b011eec90\/google-maps.png?v=905524240eba4a810b7648f150c98fe0 1x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Google Maps users around the world will see different names for the Gulf that shares near-equal lengths of shoreline with the United States and Mexico when they access the application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Google<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The names you see in the Maps app are based on your country location, which is determined by information from your phone&#8217;s operating system (e.g., iOS and Android), including your SIM, network, and locale,&#8221; Google said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a> Monday explaining the name change. &#8220;If you&#8217;re using Google Maps on the web, the names are based on the region you select in your Search settings or your device&#8217;s location, if you haven&#8217;t selected one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Department <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/interior-department-gulf-of-mexico-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">announced<\/a><\/span> the Gulf of Mexico had been formally renamed the Gulf of America during Mr. Trump&#8217;s first week in office. In another change called for by the same executive order, Denali, a mountain in Alaska and North America&#8217;s tallest peak, was renamed Mount McKinley after a slain president, for the second time in history, the department said. Denali is the traditional Alaskan Native name for the mountain. As of Tuesday, it had not been updated in the Geographic Names Information System or in Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/emily-mae-czachor\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Emily Mae Czachor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Emily Mae Czachor is a news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and issues involving social and criminal justice. 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