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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters accompanied by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Burgum's woman Kathryn Burgum, aboard Air Force One wherever Trump signed a proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day, arsenic helium travels from West Palm Beach, Fla. to New Orleans. (AP Photo)
Apple renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America connected its maps Tuesday aft an bid by President Donald Trump was made authoritative by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System.
The determination follows Google, which announced past period that it would marque the change erstwhile the authoritative listing was updated and wrote successful a blog station Sunday that it had begun rolling retired the change.
In Google’s case, the institution said radical successful the U.S. volition spot Gulf of America and radical successful Mexico volition spot Gulf of Mexico. Everyone other volition spot some names.
After taking office, Trump ordered that the h2o bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba beryllium renamed.
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the sanction precocious Sunday. Microsoft has besides made the sanction alteration connected its Bing maps.
The Associated Press, which provides quality astir the satellite to aggregate audiences, volition notation to the Gulf of Mexico by its archetypal name, which it has carried for 400 years, portion acknowledging the sanction Gulf of America.
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