One of US President Donald Trump’s first actions upon returning to power was ordering the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed. But mapmakers are still largely waiting for the green light.

The tech company said Monday it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

The executive order will direct the secretary of the interior to change the name to "Gulf of America” for use on official maps and throughout the federal government, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news. Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior.

In a post on X, Google said it will follow the government’s lead by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America."

Among the first executive orders signed by President Donald Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly named "Gulf of America." "President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American civilization," the newly inaugurated president's executive order said.

Google Maps will make the controversial move to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America following US President Donald Trump’s executive order. Last week President Trump made a range of sweeping executive orders hours into his second term,

Google plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and that of the Alaskan mountain Denali to Mount McKinley in Google Maps, the company said Tuesday in a series of tweets. The news follows President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the body of water and mountain on his first day in office.

After Donald Trump recently entered the White House, after winning the presidential elections in the United States of America, the new president has set to work to make all the cha

Google has said it will restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app, complying with executive orders by Donald Trump.

Soon Google Maps will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. In a social media post, Google explained it has a longstanding practice of changing names that have been updated in official government sources. The name will be tweaked when the government databases is updated.

In a surprising move, Google has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Google Maps, following a directive from Donald Trump, the new President of the United States.