Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x Join our Whatsapp channel Google Maps will change the name of “Gulf of Mexico ... order citing its importance to US oil production, fishing and tourism.

Google labels the gulf under two names for international users: “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).” In Arab countries near the body of water, Google Maps calls it the Arabian Gulf. When the Obama ...

This is not This is not the first time Google has used different names for a single location on its maps. For example, the body of water between Saudi Arabia and Iran—long at the center of a ...

WASHINGTON: Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf ... Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula nameless. The body of water is now labelled ...

The Gulf of Mexico is set to be renamed “Gulf of America” by Google after US president Donald Trump ordered the name ... Maps. The company left the waterway between Iran and the Arabian ...

The tech giant promised to make a similar change for the tallest peak in North America, reverting the name ... in Google Maps as the Persian Gulf for people in Canada, but as the Arabian Gulf ...

Google explained in a post on X that it has a longstanding practice of applying name changes when ... with regard to Google Maps include China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

Google Maps’ decision to drop the name “Persian Gulf” from its service and leave the waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula nameless was also strongly criticized by Iran ...

But on Monday, Google Maps changed ... of an oil platform. One much-liked post compared the moment to 2003’s “Freedom Fries” saga, when House Republicans changed the name of French ...

Google says it will update its popular maps service to ... Google displays both names, with users in Arab countries near the water seeing it labeled as the Arabian Gulf and users in Iran seeing ...

The Gulf of Mexico has always been more than just a body of water for those of us living along its shores. It's a lifeline ...