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 ...

And with a stroke of the pen, Florida ... 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 ...

But changing the name of a water body that is integral to Florida might not be so simple. A computer search of Florida laws shows at least 55 statutes include references to the Gulf of Mexico ...

Italian cartographer Baptista Boazio called it the “Baye of Mexico” in a map from ... body of water take on other names. Those include the “Gulf of New Spain” and the “Florida Sea ...

The gulf borders some 1,700 miles of U.S. coastline spanning Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, as well as parts of Cuba and Mexico ... is the body of water south of China ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been so named at least since the late 1600s, when it was used to describe the body of water that's ... with a 17th Century map of North and South America as a backdrop.

The water bordered by the Southern ... entire world it will continue to be called the Gulf of Mexico.” The politics of maps are undeniable Map lines are inherently political.

Now that "Gulf of America" is the official name of the body of water ... Florida Straits — on either side of Cuba and the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba. The Gulf has an average depth ...

More than half of Florida's ... 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." ...

President Trump’s order changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf ... where the land on the map looks like grains of rice and okra in a bowl of gumbo, the body of water alongside it has always ...