US President Donald Trump has said that Google CEO Sundar Pichai turned down his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean the “American Ocean”.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina where he said he had called Google, which owns Google Maps, about the idea.<\/p>\n
He said the company had told him that oceans “are different” because they touch many countries.<\/p>\n
“I said, ‘Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?’<\/p>\n
“‘No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it,’ he said, ‘Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of – really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.'”<\/p>\n
The US president later said he would “probably pass” and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, “We’re going to call it the American Ocean”.<\/p>\n
“Europe would be thrilled,” Mr Trump said.<\/p>\n
Google, owned by Alphabet, changed the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” on its maps for US users after Mr Trump ordered the change in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Google also designated Lake Ontario as “Lake America” on maps seen by US users after President Trump announced he was renaming the body of water.<\/p>\n
People in Canada and elsewhere still see the body of water labelled Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n
Last month, Mr Trump suggested the state of New Mexico could become “New America”.<\/p>\n
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