Although people accessing Google Maps from inside the U.S. will see the name Gulf of America, users in Mexico will continue to see the basin's earlier title.

The Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America on Apple Maps for users in the United States after a mapping database update and further criticism from Republican lawmakers.

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

Google Maps agrees to follow Trump’s renaming of Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ The change will only be visible to U.S. users.

U.S. users of Google Maps now see the body of water listed as the “Gulf of America”—after Trump signed an executive order renaming it—while Mexican users still see it as the Gulf of Mexico ...