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Google said Monday 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.

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.

President Donald Trump has the power to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but whether people will call it that is an open question.

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.

(Gray News) - The U.S. Department of the Interior said efforts are underway to implement Trump’s geographic name changes. The department released a statement Friday announcing the change.

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.