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Florida follows Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America,” requiring updates to maps, schools and state documents.

Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match US President Donald Trump's executive order to ...

Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform. (AP/Fernando Llano) "We are going to wait.

Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google for labelling the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" on its US version of Google Maps. Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday that ...

Turner in his letter said the company was using Gulf of America to follow “long-standing maps policies impartially and consistently across all regions.” The Gulf of Mexico has carried that ...

Sheinbaum has repeatedly decried the move, arguing the “Gulf of Mexico” name has long been recognized internationally. On Feb. 13, she said Google had not resolved Mexico’s earlier complaints.

The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. The Associated Press refers to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.

So Hermann launched a Kickstarter to fund his vision for a new map of the Gulf of Mexico. “Maps tend to shape things like memory and meaning,” Hermann said.

Mexico might sue Google over the "Gulf of America" label on Google Maps. The label change follows Trump's January 20 executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.