News Mexico to Google Maps: If you use Gulf of America, you should rename North America Updated: Jan. 31, 2025, 9:20 a.m. | Published: Jan. 31, 2025, 9:15 a.m.

"For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico," says Sheinbaum. "And for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico." As for Google Maps… sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.

One 1544 map designated North America as “Baccalearum” in reference to the abundance of cod along its shores. Sheinbaum’s tit-for-tat rhetorical spars with Trump echo her predecessor, former ...

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, wasted no time trolling President-elect Donald Trump, posting a vintage map showing that a large portion of what is now the United States of America used to ...

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.

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 ...

US News Mexico threatens Google with legal action over ‘Gulf of America’ name change By Associated Press Published Feb. 13, 2025, 7:29 p.m. ET ...

Send an email to Jacob. The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in federal documents. The vote was 211-to-206.

The article notes that a map depicting English explorer Sir Francis Drake's Caribbean voyage in the 1580s used the term "Gulf of Mexico," and while other names like "Sea of the North" and "Gulf of ...

Mexico's president one-ups Trump after he claims he'll rename the Gulf of Mexico As is often the case with Trump, it’s unclear whether his remarks are to be taken at face value or if he's simply ...