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Google Maps in the US Will Change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley


Once official government sources update.

By Todd Haselton, a deputy editor with 18 years of experience writing and editing product reviews, gadgets and business news. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” the company posted on X. “The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, under the purview of the Department of the Interior, is working expeditiously to update the official federal nomenclature in the Geographic Names Information System to reflect these changes, effective immediately for federal use,” the Department of the Interior said on Friday.

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