How do you change Google maps language?

Answer 1

if u have an account with google, (it still works if u haven't, u juz leave this first sentence out), when u sign in u will see a tab labelled, 'maps' just below toolbars, along with 'images', 'documents', 'gmail', etc.

choose 'maps' and then clik on the 'earth', ' map' , or 'satellite' and u will be presented with a drop down menu.

choose the item that 'reads/says' english' with a greyed out tick to it's left-hand side.

left-clik on it and the all of the names that were labelling all of the country'z, city'z, town'z of the world, outside your own country will now be re-labelled with the host country's written language, including; the coutry's that have symbols such as; kata-kana for japan, cyrillic for Russia, n' khmer n' isan based languages for Cambodia, n' Thailand etc.

so in short each country and all of it'z; city'z, town'z, village'z, landmark's etc will now be renamed and printed, ie: transliterated into the language of, 'that' particular country, region or part of the world. i hope that is clear and helpful ;-/

jakkadan

Answer 2

Google offers its websites in a number of languages. Google Maps automatically displays place names in the local language of each country. If you visit the web site in the US then the country of origin is detected and the default is English. Likewise, visiting Google Maps from Mexico would show the menus in Spanish.

You can override and force the menus of Google Maps into a particular language as well. Append ?hl=xx to the URL to change the menus to two-letter language code (en for English, es for Spanish, de for German, ar for Arabic, etc.)

For example, append ?hl=es to the URL to change the menus to Spanish.