[paulcole]

> If not, is this correct following USA law?

Why wouldn’t it be? What’s stopping them from calling it Gulf of Google if they want to?

Trump isn’t forcing Google to do anything. They use a database for their place names and use what is in that database.

[xattt]

The assumption is there’s a global body that registers place names and regional borders that Google would vet against.

[hiatus]

There is not. See the whole Taiwan thing.