The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – objected over many years to requests to rename the mountain, and the board did not act on those requests.
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Google faced blowback on social media Monday after it announced it would comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order on its Google Maps service, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and reverting to referring to Alaska’s Denali as Mount McKinley.
Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one ... to update the peak’s name in the federal Geographic Names Information System. Since the board’s decisions are binding ...
Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps.
Google said Monday its maps will use names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico favored by President Donald Trump — Mount McKinley and Gulf of America — when federal maps make the switch.
Google on Monday said its maps will use names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico favored by President Donald Trump — Mount McKinley and Gulf of America — when federal maps make the switch.
Sheinbaum made the case that Google should not bend to “the mandate of a country” attempting to change the name of an international sea. “For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico, and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico,” she said.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum shared a letter to Google, arguing that the tech giant should follow rules set by the U.N. that relate to naming bodies of water instead of following Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum says her country is reaching out to Google about its Maps change and is suggesting additional revisions of its own.
Google will change the Gulf of Mexico's name to the "Gulf of America" following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. Google stated that it follows a longstanding policy of updating place names based on official government databases,