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Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' for U.S. Users at Trump's Directive

Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' for U.S. Users at Trump's Directive

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September 1st, 2026

Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' for U.S. Users at Trump's Directive

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Google, the global technology behemoth, has officially announced that it has renamed 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' in its mapping application for users within the United States.

๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—… ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋„ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์—์„œ '๋ ˆ์ดํฌ ์˜จํƒ€๋ฆฌ์˜ค'๋ฅผ '๋ ˆ์ดํฌ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด'๋กœ ๋ช…์นญ์„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This measure is a direct reflection of the recent executive order issued by President Donald Trump, which mandated the renaming of the aforementioned lake.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ํ˜ธ์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ช…์นญ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€์‹œํ•œ ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ–‰์ •๋ช…๋ น์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

This latest update to Google Maps was executed a mere matter of days after Trump's directive was issued, amid the escalating trade war with Canada.

๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ์ง€๋„์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋Š” ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค์™€์˜ ๋ฌด์—ญ ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๊ฒฉํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์™€์ค‘์— ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋ช…๋ น์ด ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ผ ๋งŒ์— ๋‹จํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The two nations are presently levying additional tariffs amounting to billions of dollars on each other's imports.

์–‘๊ตญ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ˆ˜์ž…ํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹ค์ •์ด๋‹ค.

This measure is of a piece with the response Google adopted when Trump issued his directive in 2025 to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America.'

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ 2025๋…„ ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ”๋งŒ์„ '์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋งŒ'์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์นญํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ์ง€์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์ทจํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋Œ€์‘๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ถค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ™์ดํ•œ๋‹ค.

In a blog post published on Saturday, Google proclaimed that this decision was rendered in accordance with its established practice of adhering to the nomenclature promulgated by the United States Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ํ† ์š”์ผ ๋ฐœํ–‰๋œ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง€๋ฆฌ๋ช… ์ •๋ณด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(GNIS)์ด ๊ณ ์‹œํ•œ ๋ช…์นญ์„ ์ค€์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ด€๋ก€์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€์Œ์„ ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

"Those utilizing maps in the United States will encounter the designation 'Lake America,' whereas in Canada the appellation 'Lake Ontario' will persist, and beyond these two nations, both nomenclatures will be inscribed," Google conveyed in a succinct statement.

"๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ง€๋„๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์€ '๋ ˆ์ดํฌ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด'๋ผ๋Š” ๋ช…์นญ์„ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ '๋ ˆ์ดํฌ ์˜จํƒ€๋ฆฌ์˜ค'๋ผ๋Š” ๋ช…์นญ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์–‘๊ตญ ์ด์™ธ์˜ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‘ ๋ช…์นญ์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๊ฐ„๊ฒฐํ•œ ์„ฑ๋ช…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"This update adheres to the long-standing policy applied to bodies of water bearing divergent names across nations, and takes effect as of this moment."

"์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณ„๋กœ ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๋ช…์นญ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์ˆ˜์—ญ์— ์ ์šฉ๋˜์–ด ์˜จ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํšจ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Trump's decision on Thursday to rename the lake elicited a simultaneous chorus of derision and indifference in both Canada and the United States.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ์— ํ˜ธ์ˆ˜ ๋ช…์นญ์„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์–‘๊ตญ์—์„œ ์กฐ๋กฑ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

On Saturday, Ontario's Premier Doug Ford retaliated against Trump's directive by erecting a colossal banner along the Canadian shoreline bearing the words 'Lake Ontario. Now and Forever.'

ํ† ์š”์ผ, ์˜จํƒ€๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ ๋”๊ทธ ํฌ๋“œ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ง€์‹œ์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค ์—ฐ์•ˆ์— '๋ ˆ์ดํฌ ์˜จํƒ€๋ฆฌ์˜ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜์›ํžˆ'๋ผ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ˜• ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋ง‰์„ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์‘์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The White House, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Premier Ford's office all declined to offer immediate commentary on Google's decision on Sunday.

๋ฐฑ์•…๊ด€, ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค ์ด๋ฆฌ ๋งˆํฌ ์นด๋‹ˆ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํฌ๋“œ ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์€ ์ผ์š”์ผ, ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋…ผํ‰์„ ์œ ๋ณดํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

This colossal internet conglomerate operates a preeminent search engine and a pivotal digital advertising network, with its corporate headquarters situated in Mountain View, California.

์ด ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„๊ณผ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ๋งˆ์šดํ‹ด๋ทฐ์— ๋ณธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Its parent entity is Alphabet Incorporated.

๊ทธ ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ ์ฃผ์‹ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ด๋‹ค.

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