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Mexican President urges Google to reconsider renaming the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' on its maps feature at Trump's demand, and threatens legal action.

The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google “reconsiders” its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.

For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump’s inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has “a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government “will file a civil suit” against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.

  • keropoktasenEnglish
    -31•4 days ago

    Well, the continent was named America, not the Mexico continent. So the name Gulf of America just sounds right. It’s not like the name changed to the Gulf of US.

    • @HandBashEnglish
      7•4 days ago

      I thought it was called North America?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 days ago

      Following your logic Lake Michigan should be renamed Lake America. There’s a bunch of lakes up there, do they all get renamed Lake of America? Seems confusing!

      Here’s a list of all the gulfs in the Americas:

      North America

      1. Gulf of Mexico
      2. Gulf of Alaska
      3. Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes)
      4. Gulf of St. Lawrence
      5. Gulf of Honduras
      6. Gulf of Panama
      7. Gulf of Tehuantepec

      Central and South America

      1. Gulf of Darien (Colombia and Panama)
      2. Gulf of Venezuela
      3. Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

      Following your logic, they’re all badly named because that’s just named after the region they’re in, not the content.

      • keropoktasenEnglish
        1•3 days ago

        Not badly named, I just don’t see anything wrong renaming it to the Gulf of America. It’s like renaming the South China Sea to South East Asia Sea.