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Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The process in each state is different.

Google will show Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America" and Alaska's Denali as "Mount McKinley" in the United States once the U.S. government has officially updated to the U.S. Geographic Names Information System.

Alaska wasn't a state then and it would ... took steps to update the peak’s name in the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Google confirmed Monday that it would update names ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali has resulted in lots of discussion.

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Google announced that it will adhere to official U.S. government designations when updating the names of geographic features on its Maps platform. The company’s statement comes in response to recent executive orders by President Donald Trump to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and to restore Mount McKinley as the official

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.

“Denali” is the mountain’s preferred name for Alaska Natives. Former President Barack Obama ordered it changed in 2015 from its previous name “McKinley,” which was a tribute to President William McKinley, designated in the late 19th century by a gold prospector.

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.

Google also said Denali, a mountain in southern Alaska and North ... government updates those site listings in the Geographic Names Information System, an official database that includes ...

Google Maps addressed what would happen to those landmarks on their systems. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in o