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Google maps has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 week ago by DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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We live in the stupidest fucking timeline

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[–] argon@lemmy.today 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

UK version

Google Maps screenshot of the Gulf of Mexico being named "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

utterly bitchmade nation

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah that's C*nada too

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gulf of Canada too???? doggirl-shock

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hudson Bay? NOPE! That's MAPLE BAY to you, YANKKKOID eh!

[–] fox@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Around here we call it Wînipekw

[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This feels like a compromise that Keir Starmer personally came up with

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

I welcome this change but encourage the people at Google to go further. Why, for example, not also add Gulf of Atlantic in square brackets after the regular parenthesis

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

In the US and I get this if I'm zoomed out a bit (and it looks like this is how disputed islands are labeled also, if you check Malvinas/Falklands for example) but if I zoom in a bit it's just "Gulf of America"