Retropolis The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names. Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

A 1630 map called the body of water "Gulf of New Spain." According to the United States Geological Survey, among the other names the Gulf of Mexico has been called include: Bay of Mexico; Bay of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed two bills (HB 575, HB 549) that rename what's currently still known as the Gulf of Mexico in state law and public school textbooks.The move is a response ...

Sheinbaum Pardo cited a map from 1607 that refers to the body of water as the Gulf of Mexico in a press conference pushing back on Trump’s name change. The map also dubs North America as ...

MapQuest retains Gulf of Mexico name. Map applications on Apple and Bing have since followed Google's lead. MapQuest, however, isn't among them.The navigation company has retained the Gulf of ...

Other references to the Gulf of Mexico show up in laws dealing with issues such as coastal construction, tourist-development taxes, the definitions of water management districts and an agreement ...

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 ...

Sheinbaum Pardo projected a map authored in 1607 that labels a rough drawing of North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America, and also names the Gulf of Mexico, already at the time a ...

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 area, long named the Gulf of Mexico across the the world, has gained a geopolitical spotlight in recent weeks after President Donald Trump declared he would change the Gulf’s name.

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...