US President Donald Trump ordered the name of the Gulf of Mexico to be changed to the Gulf of America. According to him, the name change “respects the greatness of America.”
The Gulf of Mexico is now the American Gulf Search Service in Google’s US maps. Mexican googlers still see the water area under an old name.
When a Finnish Google user is looking for a Gulf of Mexico, both names, both Mexico and America, are marked on the map.
Instead, for example, the name of the Gulf of Mexico is at least for the time being at the Apple map service.
The name change is based on the recent US president Donald Trump The will: he announced in his inauguration in late January that the name of the Gulf of Mexico in the south of the United States will be changed on 9.2. from the Gulf of America.
Trump signed a statement on the President’s airplane on Air Force One on the weekend when he was on his way to New Orleans to watch the American football NFL Super Bowl. At the same time, he declared the day of the Gulf of America on February 9th.
According to Trump, the name change respects the greatness of America.
Last month, Google announced that it also intends to change the name of Denal, the highest mountain in North America in Alaska, back to McKinley in honor of the former President of the country William McKinley. Trump has also ordered this change change.
Denali Mountain was long known as McKinley’s name until President Barack Obama changed its name to Denal in 2015 to honor the indigenous people in the area.
On Tuesday morning, the mountain was still visible solely in the Finnish map application in Google’s Finnish map application.
Sources: CNN