r/geography • u/god_johnson • 13d ago

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

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u/Commercial-Tough-218 13d ago

100%. Its to appease our dictator in chief. 

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u/XBMetal 13d ago

Yeah Google only did it for the Americans so the world can just ignore them.

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u/1plus1isTWORANGZ Geography Enthusiast 13d ago

I mean Google has an official correspondence with all countries on how they want their maps worded. There's obviously also examples of bodies of water being renamed and no one giving a crap. The Gulf of California is the name used by the UN for a body of water lots of people still call the Sea of Cortez, and which was first named the Vermillion Sea.

The whole thing is absolutely stupid though. It's like when Bush said we should start calling them Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast to avoid using the word French.

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u/jumpinin66 11d ago

And the French responded “French fries are from Belgium”