According to a Fox Business report, Google Maps will officially update its system to include the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley — two name changes President Trump made by executive order.
“We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” Google posted on X Monday evening. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
Once the update is made, Google will “update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.”
When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.
— News from Google (@NewsFromGoogle) January 27, 2025
Google also said that, in line with its longstanding practice, when official names vary between countries, Maps users will “see their official local name.”
“Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names,” Google posted. “That applies here too.”
Trump instructed the Department of the Interior to change the names via executive order on his first day in office. Former President Barack Obama changed Mount McKinley to Mount Denali in 2015.
More over at Fox News:
CHANGING THE MAP: The platform will soon rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" and restore Mount McKinley, undoing former President Obama’s 2015 revision to rename the mountain to Denali. https://t.co/4q6fVmOIcG pic.twitter.com/a8KqvaOeEQ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 28, 2025