• @qarbone
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    811 month ago

    It’s still called “the Gulf of Mexico.”

    Some dumb bully gave it a dumb nickname and they’re acting like he legally changed it’s birth certificate.

      • @JayJay
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        321 month ago

        Trump tried to rename the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America.

          • XIIIesq
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            It’s pretty funny tbh, I’m waaaay too politically fatigued to get bent out of shape over things like that.

        • Echo Dot
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          21 month ago

          Surely if it was anything, the gulf of America would be off the coast of Florida, surrounding the islands.

    • The Menemen!
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      1 month ago

      It is not a country. So there is nothing like a UN defined name. So no one can force any country to name it the way they want. Don’t think it’s Trump decision. Maybe the U.S. Board of Geographic Names?

      Like you call it Persian Gulf, other countries call it Gulf of Arabia, and Turkey actually even calls it Gulf of Basra. (Btw, you legally have to call it Türkiye nowadays. It actually “changed it’s birth certificate” at the UN. Doubt you care about that.)

      • @qarbone
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        21 month ago

        Do you call it the “Gulf of America”?

        • The Menemen!
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          Nope. In non of my languages is that the official name. But tbf, I am not sure if I ever called it anything. It is quite far away from here.