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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, a move that could take ...

Google announced on Monday that its online mapping platform, Google Maps, will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

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Google also said Denali, a mountain in southern Alaska and North ... to alter geographical names of places inside the country. The Gulf of Mexico first appeared on a world map roughly 400 years ...

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