Google says it will display the names "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley" to the US users of its Google Maps service if and when US President Donald Trump's pledge to rename the locations becomes official.

Trump said in his inauguration speech on January 20 that he planned to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak, Denali. The mountain has been the subject of a long-running naming dispute.

Google said in a post on X on Monday that it had a "longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," referring to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

"When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the US quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America."

The Trump Administration said on January 24 that it had already renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Trump signed executive orders on his first day in........

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