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In his inaugural address, President Trump doubled-down on his pledge to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s what to know about the Gulf, the name and the possibility it might change.
Tech giant Google began labeling the Gulf of Mexico with different names depending on a person's location after President Trump's executive action soon after he took office in January.
Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.
The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. The Associated Press refers to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.
Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google for labelling the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" on its US version of Google Maps. Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday that ...
Google Maps shows the Gulf of Mexico renamed the Gulf of America after President Donald Trump’s executive order on Feb. 11, 2025. AP. The body of water has shared borders between the United ...
The Gulf of Mexico has had its name for about 400 years. In his book, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, published in 1589, English geographer Richard ...
Apple Maps has quietly been updated to change the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" when viewed by U.S. users. This comes a mere day after Google made the same change to its own Maps app. U ...
From Canada to Panama, Greenland to the Gulf of Mexico, Trump seems to be outlining a new MAGA Manifest Destiny.
The executive order rechristening the body of water known internationally as the “Gulf of Mexico” is not an easy document to take seriously. Portions of it read like a child’s research paper ...