Google Maps changes name of Gulf of Mexico after Trump's executive order

Google Maps has changed the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America, aft Donald Trump passed an enforcement bid renaming the assemblage of h2o successful the eyes of the US.

The US-based institution antecedently said it would alteration the sanction of the oceanic basin erstwhile it was updated successful the US Geographic Names System (USGS).

Mexico asked Google not to bash so, claiming the US had nary ineligible close to alteration the Gulf's sanction nether the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea.

This says that a country's territorial oversea - which falls nether the jurisdiction of a authorities - lone extends up to 12 nautical miles (22km) from its coastline.

The remainder of the Gulf is shared nether conditions betwixt the US, Mexico, and Cuba.

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For users of Google successful the US, if they present scroll implicit the Gulf, they volition find it renamed the Gulf of America.

Users elsewhere, for illustration successful the UK, are met with the Gulf carrying some names: "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".

Whereas, users successful Mexico volition inactive spot the h2o assemblage called the Gulf of Mexico.

It was 1 of the precise archetypal orders signed by the president to rename the Gulf, and past connected 9 February, portion flying implicit it, helium signed a 2nd bid declaring the first-ever Gulf of America Day.

"In the US, the Geographic Names Information System has officially updated 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America'," Google said successful a statement.

"As we announced 2 weeks agone and accordant with our longstanding practices, we've begun rolling retired changes to bespeak this update," Google said successful a statement.

Celebrating the renaming, Mr Trump took to Truth Social to station an representation of the Gulf of America, saying: "GULF OF AMERICA!"

'It cannot apply'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum antecedently told reporters astatine the extremity of past period that: "If a state wants to alteration the designation of thing successful the sea, it would lone use up to 12 nautical miles," CNN reported.

"It cannot use to the rest, successful this case, the Gulf of Mexico," she added.

Ms Sheinbaum besides antecedently joked that she was considering renaming the continent of North America "Mexican America" successful her country.

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She said: "We inquire that erstwhile you enactment Mexican America successful the hunt engine, the representation appears that we presented."

A founding papers from 1814, which preceded Mexico's constitution, utilized that sanction for the continent.