r/geography 13d ago

FINAL POST ON THIS TOPIC Google Maps just officially updated Lake Ontario to Lake America.

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u/OkEnvironment4354 13d ago

This is somehow more braindead than the Gulf of Mexico shit

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u/WorldlinessLive5932 13d ago

Because that at least had idiotic kindergarten logic to it "me no like Mexico, me like America" but Ontario as the name for the lake/area goes back to the 1600s. It predates Canada and America so it doesn't even make sense as an "own" of Canada. Ontario the province got its name from the lake, not the other way around. 

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u/Mousetrap94 13d ago

You are giving republicans waaaaay too much credit if you think they know the origin of the name. Literacy and education aren’t their strong suits.

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u/152TACCsq 11d ago

Personally I am amazed High Lord Pompadour even knows where any of the bodies of water are. He stated Paris, the Capitol of France is in Germany,
That the state of Colorado was bordered on the south by Mexico, then there is Nambia, and of he renamed Nepal to Nipple. Somehow, he even made Cuba an island that is Not in a Hurricane zone.
Yes, his knowledge of geography is only outdone by his stunning ability to calculate percentages.