The system's new description for the Gulf, an ocean basin that shares nearly equal lengths of shoreline with the U.S. and Mexico, reads: "The Gulf of America, formerly known as th

Google's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico comes weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to rename it to the Gulf of America.

The Gulf of Mexico has now been renamed the “Gulf of America” for U.S.-based users of Google Maps following an executive order by President Donald Trump. Google, a subsidiary of Mountain View, California-based Alphabet,