Gulf of Mexico: How Google handles controversial geography

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Tech giant Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes pushed through by Donald Trump. It's part of an established policy, but it's not always popular. 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...