# Google Maps to show Gulf of America after government updates

<https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/google-maps-to-show-gulf-of-america-after-government-updates.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

I remember reading about this feature in Google Maps years ago. They had to solve the capability of using different labels for the same thing because governments don't agree. Mostly it is in conflicted areas of the world. But now the [U.S. is considered a ‘sensitive country’ like China, Russia](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/google-reclassifies-us-as-sensitive-country-like-china-russia-.html) and we'll get our own special names that are different than the rest of the globe.

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