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Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo urged Google on Thursday to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for U.S. users of Google Maps, threatening to file a ...
The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho de la Nueva España, and, finally Gulf of Mexico.
Google Maps changed the body of water's name to the Gulf of America earlier this month. It followed President Trump's proclamation that decreed the renaming and ...
As it stands, the gulf appears in Google Maps as Gulf of America within the United States, as Gulf of Mexico within Mexico ...
As of Thursday, how the Gulf appeared on Google Maps was dependent on the user's location and other data. If the user is in the United States, the body of water appeared as Gulf of America.
Mexico says that it could sue Google if it kept the name "Gulf of America" as the area does not actually belong to the USA.