Google Maps renames the Gulf of Mexico in “Gulf of America” ​​after Donald Trump’s request

Immediately legalized, immediately modified. The tech giant Google has officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” ​​after the modification desired by Donald Trump was ratified by the US Geographic Names System (USGS), noted this Tuesday, February 11 The Parisian.

On its Google Maps cartography tool, the company now offers all users the two appellations of this sea part: “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”, can be read on the search engine. In the United States, only the mention “Gulf of America” ​​is readable, when there is only the “Gulf of Mexico” displayed in the border country.

A battle between Trump and his Mexican counterpart

Donald Trump announced on January 7 that at his return to the White House, the United States would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, on the southern coast of the country, in “Gulf of America”. “We are going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which sounds good and covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a nice name, “said the future American president at a press conference at his residence Mar-A-Lago in Florida, before castigating Mexico which” must stop leaving millions of people To pour in our country ”.

Google had specified at the same time that users outside the United States would continue to see the original name and the new name, as is the case for the disputed places. From now on, the expression “Gulf of Mexico” is therefore only readable in the country, while the rest of the world sees the mention of the two names: “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”.