"If you're using Google Maps on the web, the names are based on the region you select in your Search settings or your device's location, if you haven't selected one." The Interior Department ...

By Yan Zhuang Google has renamed the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in its Maps application for users in the United States. The company started implementing the change after the U.S. government ...

If you're using Google Maps on the web, the names are based on the region you select in your Search settings or your device's location, if you haven't selected one." ...

Former President Barack Obama renamed the Alaska landmark to Denali in 2015 as a nod to the region’s native population. But that change hasn’t been made on Google Maps as of Tuesday.

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water bound to the east by Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the west by Texas and Mexico, is now the Gulf of America.

“We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google said in a post on X. The company said that Maps will reflect any updates ...

and Nagla Tarai in Udham Singh Nagar in the State’s Kumaon region. The scheme was first conceptualised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government under former Chief Minister Trivendra Singh ...

The north, meanwhile, is packed with excellent hikes, friendly locals and a huge musical history. The north of England might just be one of the world’s most underrated regions. That’s why we actually ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...