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.

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 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.

Google announced that it would be taking steps to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US on its Google Maps platform.

Google will make the changes once the Department of the Interior updates the Geographic Names Information System. TRUMP TO RENAME GULF OF MEXICO, MOUNT DENALI ON FIRST DAY IN OFFICE "We’ve ...

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.

President Donald Trump wants to rename Denali and the Gulf of Mexico to Mount McKinley and Gulf of America, and Google said it would update its maps if it happens.

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 update the names of Denali and the Gulf of Mexico in Google Maps to reflect the executive order by President Donald Trump on inauguration day to change them to Mount McKinley and the Gulf of America.

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.

The tech company said Monday it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”