Sort of. Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water west of Florida as the Gulf of America. Residents elsewhere in the world will see it as both the Gulf of ...

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.

It's official. Sort of. Google Maps posted on X it would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System. The same day he ...

Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in ... the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and Florida. Google says it follows the GNIS, or Geographic Names Information ...

A Florida state senator from Sarasota proposed ... Yes – at least, according to the U.S. federal government and Google Maps. Other countries are still referring to the body of water as the ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had previously threatened Google with a lawsuit over the relabelling of the Gulf of Mexico.

Google Maps, the most popular mapping software in ... Mar-a-Lago, by the way, is located on the Atlantic coast of Florida, which is opposite from the state's Gulf of Mexico shoreline.

Google Maps announced last week it updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.

Google, Apple and Bing Maps have changed the Gulf of Mexico to ... While some U.S. citizens who live in places like Florida have gladly welcomed the name change, others appear irked.

Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. In a post on X, Google explained that it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official ...