Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has written a letter to Google asking the company to rethink its choice to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
US President Donald Trump signed an government order requiring the frame of water – which is bordered via the United States, Cuba and Mexico – be renamed the Gulf of The us in his first week in place of job.
However it’ll most effective seem on Google Maps with the brand new identify for other people based totally in the United States – in other places on the planet it’ll retain its present identify, which has been used for centuries.
There’s no world organisation answerable for the naming of our bodies of water.
However Mexico argues the U.S. can’t legally trade the Gulf’s identify since the United International locations Conference at the Regulation of the Sea dictates that a person nation’s sovereign territory most effective extends as much as 12 nautical miles out from the sea coast.
“[The name change] may just most effective correspond to the 12 nautical miles clear of the coastlines of the US of The us,” Sheinbaum stated.
Google has no longer but answered to the BBC’s request for remark.
However in a remark on social media on Monday it stated: “Now we have a longstanding observe of making use of identify adjustments when they’ve been up to date in respectable govt resources.”
It’ll additionally rename Mount Denali as Mount McKinley in the United States, following some other order from Trump.
“When respectable names range between nations, Maps customers see their respectable native identify,” it stated.
Sheinbaum has criticised Google’s choice, announcing the company must no longer reply to “the mandate of a rustic” to modify the identify of “a global sea”.
However she looked as if it would poke a laugh at Trump’s transfer via joking Mexico might call for Google make some further renaming selections.
“By means of the way in which, we also are going to invite for Mexican The us to seem at the map,” she stated.
Sheinbaum up to now joked she would believe renaming North The us as “América Mexicana” within the nation.
“He says that he’ll name it the Gulf of The us on its continental shelf,” Sheinbaum up to now stated when Trump signed the manager order.
“For us it’s nonetheless the Gulf of Mexico, and for all the global it’s nonetheless the Gulf of Mexico.”
