{"id":4570,"date":"2025-02-11T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/apple-maps-to-rename-pacific-ocean-as-southwest-corner-of-the-american\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:38:06","slug":"apple-maps-to-rename-pacific-ocean-as-southwest-corner-of-the-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/apple-maps-to-rename-pacific-ocean-as-southwest-corner-of-the-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps to rename &#8216;Pacific Ocean&#8217; as &#8216;Southwest Corner of the American&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple to Rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is set to be implemented by Apple Maps, in compliance with an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeline for U.S.-Based Users<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S.-based Apple users may start seeing the &quot;Gulf of America&quot; as soon as Tuesday, according to reports from Bloomberg. The company plans to roll out the name to users in other countries in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comparison with Google Maps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google Maps users around the world already see the split name, &quot;Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)&quot; when viewing the body of water. In contrast, Mexican and American users see their country&#8217;s respective names.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexican Government&#8217;s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to Google, asking the company to reconsider renaming the gulf. However, Apple and Google appear to be following orders from the sitting U.S. President, despite the Mexican government&#8217;s opposition.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/11\/apple-maps-plans-to-show-gulf-of-america-following-google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple to Rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is set to be implemented by Apple Maps,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[69,1246,1308,323,121],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-gulf-of-america","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/IMG_1F52E0D7404D-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}