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Al Jazeera on MSNGulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? Google Maps and contentious geographyUnited States President Donald Trump’s executive orders have crept into the realm of digital cartography. Google announced on ...
After U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in January, some digital maps quickly made the change, at least for American users.
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's controversial executive order to rename the body of water.
"We've received a few questions about naming within Google Maps," the company said in a previous X post. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in ...
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. After US President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps Tuesday after an order by President Donald Trump was made official by the U.S. Geographic Names ...
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