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Tech firm to make change in line with Trump’s executive order, using both names in world outside US and Mexico

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United…

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to demand that Congress use "force" in renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

President Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America sparks debate on geopolitical naming and national identity.

Donald Trump ordered US federal agencies to rename the Gulf of Mexico

Google and Apple maps are still using the original names. But for how long?

Among the blizzard of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back in the Oval Office was one titled Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness. It unilaterally renamed “the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America”.

For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers have watched warily, trying to stay out or to quietly encourage peace.

Donald Trump signed executive order to rename body of water in honor of ‘American greatness’