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since Mr. Trump's position gives him authority to alter geographical names of places inside the country. The Gulf of Mexico first appeared on a world map roughly 400 years ago, as Mexico's ...

(Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) 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. The company said ...

Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. In a post on X ... The name will be tweaked when the Geographic Names Information System, a government database of names and location data ...

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