Apple Maps changes name of Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’

Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on the web version of its Apple Maps following U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake.

The move by Apple on Tuesday followed a decision by Alphabet late on Saturday to change the name of the lake on its Google Maps for U.S. users.

Apple confirmed that U.S. users will see “Lake America” following a change to the body of water’s name in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System.

Users in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario, and users in the rest of the world will see both names, following the same approach Apple used after Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The name changes illustrate how U.S. tech companies are being pulled into geopolitical disputes as the Trump administration pressures them to comply with executive orders that allies and international bodies have rejected.

Trump’s executive order on Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes of North America, applies to U.S. federal usage for the lake, and does not govern what Canada, international bodies or other organizations call the lake.

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