The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of President Trump's controversial executive order to rename the body of water.

By Yan Zhuang Google has renamed the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in its Maps application for users in the United States. The company started implementing the change after the U.S. government ...

The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for US-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an executive order by US ...

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water bound to the east by Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the west by Texas and Mexico, is now the Gulf of America.

“We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google said in a post on X. The company said that Maps will reflect any updates ...

Depending on the maps one consults, says the Virginia historian Brent Tarter, the colony’s earliest boundaries reached as far north as present-day New Jersey and south to the Carolinas ...