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Google Maps Now Support 39 New Languages

Google Maps, incredibly famous worldwide for being one of the best navigation apps worldwide. Whether you’re going out for a long ride or visiting a guest, you never lose your way around.

In an official statement the company said in their blog post, “Today, we’re making Google Maps even more useful by adding 39 new languages—spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, and Zulu.”

The update is available for download on Android, iOS and Desktop users. Last month, Google had introduced some new amazing features for its users specifically in India included features such as Smart Address Search and even added support for 6 Indian Languages.

The Smart Address Search feature allows recognizing landmarks on a specific location user is searching for purely based on AI. Another amazing feature is The Plus Code feature. The Plus Code feature of Google Maps is based on a system that divides the geographical surface of the Earth into tiny ‘tiled areas’. These areas are given unique 4-digit codes and include further tiled areas, which are attributed to 6 more code digits. Typing in each code after the 4-digit area code will zoom into the desired addressed.

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