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Google Maps changes name of Gulf of Mexico after Trump's executive order
GOOGAlphabet(GOOG) Sky News·2025-02-11 17:45

Google Maps has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America, after Donald Trump passed an executive order renaming the body of water in the eyes of the US.The US-based company previously said it would change the name of the oceanic basin once it was updated in the US Geographic Names System (USGS). Mexico asked Google not to do so, claiming the US had no legal right to change the Gulf's name under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.This says that a country's territorial s ...