U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the renaming the Gulf of Mexico. He wants the body water, which is surrounded the USA, Mexico, and Cuba, to be renamed the Gulf of America. Shortly after his inauguration the 20th of January, President Trump said: "America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration the entire world." He added: "We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America." The U.S. Department of the Interior declared that it "is proud to announce the implementation name restorations that honor the legacy American greatness".
The USA's Board Geographic Names can change the name to Gulf of America official U.S. maps. However, there is no international organization the jurisdiction to mandate the global acceptance place names. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has opposed the name change. She pointed that the name "Gulf of Mexico" has existed over four centuries. She also cited the United Nations Convention the Law of the Sea, which stipulates that a country's sovereign territory only extends 19 kilometres its coastline. She retorted that if there were to be name changes, the United States should be called "Mexican America," as depicted a map of the continent 1607.
