Google started calling the Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America”. The decision is a consequence of the executive order of the President of the United States Donald Trump to rename the water mirror south of the US coasts.
The order, which Trump signed on his first day of mandate, orders the interior secretary to rename the mirror of water as a gulf of America within 30 days. “The Gulf will continue to play a central role in shaping the future of America and the global economy and, in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance for the economy of our nation and for its people, order that He was officially renamed the Gulf of America, “he asked for the president.
Google said on Monday that the gulf name on its applications will depend on the user’s position. “People who use Maps in the United States will see ‘Gulf of America’, while people in Mexico will see ‘Gulf of Mexico’. All Others (we understood Europeans) will see both names, “wrote the Californian company.
Google has also declared that the name of the Mount Denali in Alaska in Monte McKinley will also change, from the name of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, in office from 1897 to 1901. The Alaska mountain is the highest peak in the United States (6,190 meters) and the entire North American continent. In 2015, the then president Barack Obama officially recognized the Alaska mountain as Denali, the name used for centuries by the natives of Alaska. This decision was defined by Trump in his Executive Order “An affront to the life of President McKinley, his successes and his sacrifice”. Trump evidently considers McKinley a model to be inspired by. In fact in theExecutive Order He celebrates him remembering that he “heroically conducted our nation for victory in the Hispano-American war. He undermine his guide, the United States enjoy rapid economic growth and prosperity, including an expansion of the territorial conquests of the nation. The president McKinley promoted customs rates to protect the US industry, increase national production and bring the industrialization of the United States and the global flow to new levels. It was tragically murdered in an attack on the values of our nation and our success , and should be honored for his constant commitment in favor of American greatness “.
Trump is inspiring other politicians in other parts of the world. As Russian average reported on January 21st Ostorozhno NovostiDenis Bulanov, deputy of the regional Duma of Saratov belonging to the Communist Party, proposed to rename the Black Sea in “Russian Sea”. By specifying, however: “This would be only for use inside Russia. I do not insist that the other countries overlooking the Black Sea recognize the change of name “.
Disputes on geographical names are a constant of the relationships between states. Speaking of Golfi, the mirror of water that separates the Arabic peninsula from Iran has long been known as Gulf Persian and is still called in most of the world. But the Arab nations of the region call it arabic Gulf and often there have been verbal sparks between Tehran and Abu Dhabi.
The water mirror south of China, which most of the world calls southern Chinese Sea, is the South Sea for China, the eastern sea for Vietnam and the sea of the western Philippines for the Philippines.
There is also a dispute on the names of what is widely known as Japan seabut which is called the eastern sea from the nearby North and South Korea. Google Maps indicates it as the sea of Japan for Japanese users, as a sea of the East for South Korean users and uses both names – stylized as a sea of Japan ( Eastern sea) – for all the others.
A stream that has different names is the river that flows from the Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s called Rio Grande in the United States and Rio Bravo in Mexico.
Finally, the dispute should be remembered, which resulted in a short but bloody war in 1982, for the islands of the southern Atlantic called Malvinas by the Argentines and Falklands from the British. Union Jack wins on those islands.
