Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the official name of Lake Ontario, located along the U.S.-Canada border, to "Lake America," the updated name has been applied to Google Maps.

On the 30th (local time), searching for and zooming in on the location of Lake Ontario on U.S. Google Maps reveals the lake labeled as Lake America.

Even searching directly for Lake Ontario automatically redirects to Lake America.

Google explained via its blog that it updated the lake's name in accordance with its practice of reflecting geographic names provided by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) on Google Maps.

However, the name on the map varies depending on the region from which it is accessed.

If you use Google Maps in the United States, it appears as Lake America, while in Canada, it is displayed as Lake Ontario as before.

In third-party regions, both names are indicated together as Lake Ontario (Lake America).

Google previously implemented similar changes promptly when President Trump signed executive orders last year changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and renaming Denali, North America's highest peak located in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.

Lake Ontario is a large lake situated between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York.

As one of North America's Great Lakes, it serves as a border between the two countries.

The name originates from the language of the Indigenous Wyandot people and has reportedly been used for more than 400 years.

However, as friction arose between Canada and the U.S. over tariff issues, President Trump announced the name change as if to provoke them.

He signed an executive order on the 27th changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

In response, Canada has pushed back.

The previous day, Ontario Premier Doug Ford erected a sign by Lake Ontario reading "Lake Ontario. Now and Forever," and took to social media to criticize, stating, "Long after Trump has left [the White House], this place will still be called Lake Ontario."

(Photo: Screen capture from Google Maps, Yonhap News)