On Tuesday, Apple Maps officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the change comes in the footsteps of Google Maps' change on Monday.
Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America as the name for the large body of water. Bloomberg reported the change would be rolled out to users in the U.S. first before being rolled out globally.
Apple did not immediately return USA TODAY’s request for comment Tuesday.
The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the U.S. Geological Survey, provides the names used in both Google Maps and Apple Maps.
In a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter, Google said it would be complying with the name change as part of a long-standing practice of adhering to official government names. The move follows President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the body of water on his first day in office, and the federal Board on Geographic Names formally changed the name on Monday.
“We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google said.
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