Google Maps will make Trump’s changes to show Gulf of America and Mount McKinley

The Gulf of America and Mount McKinley will soon appear on Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s decision to rename the two topographical features, the company announced Monday.  

The navigation mainstay will make the changes as soon as the Department of the Interior updates the Geographic Names Information System, Google said.

“We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” the tech giant posted on X Monday evening. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

When the GNIS makes the change, Google will then move to “update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.”

The company said the forthcoming update follows their longstanding practice regarding official names of places that vary between countries.

Google Map users will still “see their official local name” based on their location. So, for users outside of the United States, Google Maps will likely still have the previous names, the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali, listed alongside the new ones.

“Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names,” Google said in its X post. “That applies here too.”

Mount Denali, soon to be reverted to Mount McKinley, was renamed by President Obama in 2015 per the request of the Koyukon, an Alaskan native group. They had been fighting to have the name changed to Denali since 1975.