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by bangaladore 489 days ago
Edit: I'm wrong here. They are doing it based on IP address, not domain for some reason. https://www.google.de/maps will show the parenthetical only when accessing it via a non-US IP and will show just "Gulf of America" when on a US IP even on that domain.

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I don't know why they decided to to do that in Canada. In the UK (for example), it only says "Gulf of America", same with Germany.