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Gulf of Mexico, between Mexico and the US
Donald Trump’s decision will be a response to a provocation by Mexican President, who suggested that the US will be called “Mexican America.”
“According to the instructions of the president, the Gulf of Mexico will be officially known as the Gulf of America and the highest peak in North America will return to the name of Monte McKinley,” the interior department said in a statement this week past, to which it had access.
The Gulf of Mexico then is called “Gulf of America” In Google map application, and changes will be available as soon as it is officially updated in the United States geographical name system, Google said in X on Monday.
“We have a long time to apply name changes when they are updated to the official government,” writes the company.
In Portugal, as well as in the other countries of the world, it will be possible to see both names, and in Mexico the original name remains.
The highest mound in North America, located in Alaska, will now be called by its official name, McKinleyeven if it is known for Denali.
Earlier this month, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had suggested, in a joke, that North America, including the United States, was called “Mexican America” – Name used in an old map of the region.
Donald Trump’s decision must therefore be Another provocationat a time when between the two countries grows, with the promise of deportations of Mexican immigrants in the US, economic tariffs and a will already expressed by Trump to make changes to the Gulf of Mexico, stop the Panama channel, Granelândia and even Even your neighbor Canada.
Reuters also recalls other regional disputes by names, in which Google took a party. In 2012, for example, Iran threatened to advance with a lawsuit against Google due to its decision to Remove the term “Persian Gulf” do Maps.
Also the sea that is between Japan and South Korea emerges as “Sea of Japan (Sea of the East)” in the application.
