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Donald Trump Floats Idea of Renaming Atlantic or Pacific Ocean on US Maps

The order applies only to federal records, and Canada, international organizations and private mapmakers are not required to use the new name.

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The remarks expand on previous name changes to the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, which he renamed the Gulf of America and Lake America.
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Donald Trump briefly renamed Lake Ontario by decree to Lake America, but not enough: the US President let us see that the Atlantic and Pacific could soon get new names.

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U.S. President Donald Trump hinted this Thursday that he is considering changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean to name one of the two as "Ocean America." "Now we're only missing an ocean. Maybe we need to change the name of the Atlantic and/or Pacific. Maybe we'll change," Trump said in an act in the Oval Office in which he signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America."To journalists' questions about the ne…

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UNILAD broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
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