As part of the innumerable executive orders, the new US President Donald Trump signed as he took over as the office, there was an order to change the name of Mexico’s Gulf in the Gulf of the US. He said last week that there was a “beautiful ring” in the Gulf name of America. “This is appropriate. And Mexico must stop allowing millions of people to be put in our country,” he said.

A few days later, the internal department of the Trump administration announced that the name change had been officially implemented. “As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and tolerate the name Mount McCinley, the highest peak of North America once again,” said the internal department. A day later, Google announced – with zero opposition – that the company would change the name of the Gulf in the Google Map in the US.

Originally, Google says that once the change in name is reflected in the official records in the US – Bholic Name Information System (GNIS) – Company in the US Gulf, in the Gulf of America, in the US, change to users in the US Will go , For users in Mexico, however, it will continue to show as the Gulf of Mexico.

Are you wondering if this is a common protocol? Can a company only change the name of a place in maps that millions of people use? Well, according to Google, the company has a long -term practice to apply name change when updated to the official government (record). “

“When the official names vary between countries, maps users look at their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. This also applies here, “the company added to its post on X.

This is not the first time Google has agreed to do something like this. Google has also implemented this region-based geographical naming in Japan and South Korea. Outside Japan and South Korea, the water body that lists the boundaries of both countries on the Google map as the “East of Japan”. In 2012, Iran warned Google of a legal action, when the company removed the name “Persian Gulf” from its map services, releasing the waterway between Iran and Arabian Peninsula, Namless. In other areas, the water body is currently labeled as “Gulf (Arab Gulf) of Persia” on Google Maps.