Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes US President Donald Trump pushes through. It is part of an established policy but is not always popular.

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Google Maps has a history of modifying place names and borders based on users' locations, particularly during geopolitical ...

So are China’s worries about the reputational costs that come with being associated with Russia ... threat of war in Europe?); length (is the war short or long and protracted); the nature of U.S.

However, the reporting by the popular news outlet accused of being Russia-leaning ... was reportedly shared by the US government with European diplomats, but has not been publicly endorsed ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... that produces most of Russia’s natural gas and supplies more than a third of the European Union’s imports.

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However, according to the statement, Yandex Maps tries to keep track of synonyms for its search data base, so it will be possible to find the place by either of the two names ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday said Google is wrong to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its Google ...

Based on assembly voting patterns from 2005 to 2022, the McKinsey Global Institute, a think-tank, has mapped countries on a ...