WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Google Maps will change

the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is

officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google

said in an X post on Monday.

The change will be visible in the U.S., but the name will

remain "Gulf of Mexico" in Mexico. Outside of the two countries,

users will see both names on Google Maps.

The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it

had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the

Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali, the tallest

mountain in North America, to Mount McKinley.

Google Maps, which is owned by Alphabet's Google,

will make a similar change with Mount McKinley.

President Donald Trump ordered the name changes as part of a

flurry of executive actions hours after taking office on Jan.

20, making good on a campaign promise.

"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now

officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America's

highest peak will once again bear the name Mount McKinley," the

Interior Department said in a statement last week.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month

jokingly suggested North America, including the United States,

be renamed "

Mexican America

" - a historic name used on an early map of the region.

Reached for comment, a Google spokesperson referred Reuters

to the company's X post.

Google has applied the same locale-based labeling

conventions to other locations subject to naming disputes.

Outside of Japan and South Korea, the body of water

bordering both nations is listed as the "Sea of Japan (East

Sea)."

In 2012, Iran

threatened

to take legal action against Google over its decision to

drop the term "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps and leaving

the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula nameless.

The body of water is now labeled "Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)"

in other countries.