Yes, Google Maps is renaming The “Mexican Bay” in the “Persian Gulf of America”, but you will not see it yet when you open the application. In a series of tweets in the News From Google account, she showed that the MAPS application will deploy an update after updating the geographical names information system (GNIS), which serves the “federal and national standard for geographical nomenclature.” Google Maps will also change the name of the highest mountain peak in North America from Denali, the name given to him by Alaskan Aborigines on Mount McKinli, when Gnis reflects his new official designation.
When this happens, we will quickly update Google cards in the United States to show Mount McKinley and America.
– News from Google (@newsfromgoogle) January 27, 2025
Google said that the company is a long -standing practice of applying changes in the card only after they were updated in official state resources. President Donald Trump signed Executive order Last week, change the name of the water and the interior department announced On Friday, he is now officially known as America.
However, only users in the US will see him as such. It will still be called the Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico, while users from the country will see both names in their Google Maps application. Google said that another official long -standing practice is to show official local names when they differ between countries and how Reuters Notes, it applied the rule to many other areas with names and territorial disputes, such as Sea of JapanField