The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed to the Gulf of America on Google Maps, the company announced on Monday, following updates from official government sources

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

The Associated Press said in updated guidance that it will use President Trump’s name change for Denali but not the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement Thursday, Amanda Barrett, the AP’s vice president of standards and inclusion,

Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president, The Post has learned.

The executive order will direct the secretary of the interior to change the name to "Gulf of America” for use on official maps and throughout the federal government, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news. Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior.

President-elect Trump will sign executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali after his inauguration on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and the Denali peak in Alaska. The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali,

President Donald Trump signed numerous executive orders on his first day in office on Monday—one of the executive orders was to rename Mt. Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.

The owner of Gulfofamerica.com remains unknown but the website – it sells maps, globes and other gear – is registered to domain registrar NameBright.

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – objected over many years to requests to rename the mountain, and the board did not act on those requests.

Among the blizzard of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back in the Oval Office was one titled Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness. It unilaterally renamed “the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America”.