The Trump administration stated on Friday that the Gulf of Mexico had been renamed the Gulf of America, but popular card services from Google and Apple have continued to show the old name.
On Monday, Google said it would update his cards to display Gulf of America as soon as the US government has updated its official cards.
“We have a long -term practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” the company said in a post on X.
President Trump signed an executive order on January 20, his first day at the office, to rename the Golf, in addition to changing the name of the highest mountain in North America. That peak, who was known since 2015 with the indigenous name Denali in Alaska, was renamed Mount McKinley, an earlier name.
The US Department of the Interior said on Friday that it implemented the implementation order, but that official government maps had not yet been updated from the Geographic Namur Information System of GNIS, which is part of the US Geological Survey.
Google said that as soon as the GNIS had made the change, the “fast” would follow in its popular card application, which is a crucial source of information about geography for more than two billion users. The company said it would also change the name of Denali, in Alaska, to Mount McKinley, in accordance with the change in the new administration.
While Google users in the United States see the name Gulf of America, those in Mexico will continue to see 'Golf van Mexico', that country refers to the water body.
Users elsewhere in the world will see both names side by side, the company said in what it described as a 'long -term practice'. The name of the Gulf of Mexico first appears for these users, followed by the name of the Gulf of America in brackets, said that two people with knowledge of the plans of the company, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Google refused to comment on the order of the names. Apple representatives did not respond to a request for commentary to the question whether the company would accept the name of the Gulf or America for his card request.
Google Maps uses routinely different names to refer to the same places, depending on the location of a user, especially if there is a geopolitical dispute, according to three people with knowledge of the company's policy. The water body between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been subject to the naming of disputes for decades. Google labels the Golf under two names for international users: “Persian Golf (Arabian Gulf).” In Arab countries in the vicinity of the water body, Google Maps calls the Arabian Gulf.
When the Obama administration changed the name of the Alaska Mountain of Mount McKinley in August 2015, Google updated tickets to display the name change three days later.
Kate Conger And Mike Isaac contributed reporting.
