Key Facts

• Lake Ontario is a large lake between New York State and Ontario, Canada.
• President Donald Trump issued an order to rename the lake "Lake America" for U.S. maps.
• Apple and Google updated their U.S. map versions to show "Lake America" instead of "Lake Ontario."
• Outside the U.S., the lake is still called Lake Ontario on Apple and Google Maps.
• Canadian leaders rejected the name change, emphasizing the lake’s Indigenous name and history.
• The U.S. Interior Department was instructed to update the lake’s name in official U.S. geographic records.
• Other map services like MapQuest decided not to change the lake’s name.
• This renaming follows a similar U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" on some map apps.