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The former Gulf of Mexico has officially been designated as the Gulf of America. Sort of. Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water west of Florida as the Gulf ...
Florida officially ... in the 1580s, used "Gulf of Mexico" on his map "View of Entire Route of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage." A 1630 map called the body of water "Gulf of New Spain." ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has ... to rewrite the map by calling it the Gulf of America — and ...