{"id":831511,"date":"2026-08-31T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:00:10","slug":"google-maps-changes-lake-ontarios-name-to-lake-america-for-us-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831511\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps changes Lake Ontario’s name to ‘Lake America’ for US users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d for users in the United States, reflecting a recent order by President Donald Trump<\/a> that changed the name of the lake, the global technology giant says.<\/p>\n

The Google Maps update comes days after Trump\u2019s order amid an escalating trade war<\/a> with Canada that has led both countries to impose billions of dollars in added tariffs on each other\u2019s goods. It echoes what Google did in 2025 when Trump issued an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico<\/a> as the Gulf of America. <\/p>\n

Google said in a blog post Saturday that the decision was based on its practice of using names assigned by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System, also known as GNIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople using Maps in the U.S. will see \u2018Lake America,\u2019 those in Canada will continue to see \u2018Lake Ontario,\u2019 and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names,\u201d Google said in a brief statement. \u201cThese updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision Thursday to rename the lake was met with mockery and indifference<\/a> in both Canada and the United States. On Saturday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded to Trump\u2019s order with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shore: \u201cLake Ontario. Now and forever.\u201d <\/p>\n

The White House, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ford\u2019s office did not immediately comment Sunday \u2060on Google\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

The internet company runs a leading search engine and major digital advertising network and is based in Mountain View, California. Its parent company is Alphabet Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d for users in the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4613,23,2356,103,8834,3827,12,48041,793,3502,851,22586,9580,3,111,7271,74,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-831511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alphabet","tag-america","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-canada-government","tag-domestic-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-ford","tag-general-news","tag-gerald-ford","tag-inc","tag-lake-ontario","tag-mark-carney","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}