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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

What a beautiful name,” Trump said from his club in Mar-a-Lago in Florida ... map from the 1600s. The map labeled North America as Mexican America and the body of water the Gulf of Mexico ...

What is the Gulf of Mexico? The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked body of water ... average depth of 5,300 feet. The Gulf mainland shore runs more than 4,000 miles from the Florida Keys ...

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 ...