When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.

The change will only be visible to U.S. users. Those in Mexico will still see “Gulf of Mexico,” while those in the rest of the world will see both names on the map.

Google Maps will comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. This change will only apply users in the United States.

Google Maps said that it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its maps app, saying that the change will take place when it has been updated in official government sources. Google also will change the name of Denali,

Hours after Google announced that it will rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in the United States, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her administration will send out a letter to the tech giant to question its decision to change the name for users of Google Maps in the U.S.

Both these moves remain controversial, with no other countries in the world appearing to be planning on referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America anytime soon. For her part, Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum joked that Mexico would retaliate and begin calling North America "América Mexicana" or "Mexican America".

President Donald Trump has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in an executive order signed on his first day in office. He also change the name of Denali, a mountain in Alaska ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and restore Denali in Alaska, the highest peak in North America, to its previous name, Mount McKinley.

While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

Google said it would rename the body of water to “Gulf of America” after it is updated in the U.S. government system in response to Trump’s executive order.