Gulf of America? Mexico Fights Back Against Google
“The U.S. controls about 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls around 49%, and Cuba the remaining 5%, according to Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries.”
A new international dispute is brewing—not over oil, trade, or immigration, but over a name change on Google Maps.
Earlier this week, Mexico filed a lawsuit against Google after the Gulf of Mexico was quietly relabeled the Gulf of America on U.S. versions of the platform.
“Google is already being sued. There has already been a first resolution, and it is awaited,” Sheinbaum said at a press conference.
At face value, it may seem like a fight over semantics. But the timing is significant: tensions between the United States and Mexico are already running high over immigration enforcement, border security, and trade policies. This dispute adds another flashpoint in a relationship strained by tariffs, asylum pacts, and serious accusations over the handling of the southern border crisis.
Google has stated the change is part of its location-specific naming policy. According to the company, U.S. users see “Gulf of America,” while users in Mexico still see “Gulf of Mexico.” Elsewhere in the world, both names appear. Mexico’s president had more to say:
“What we are saying is that Google should put Gulf of America, where it is Gulf of America, which is the part that corresponds to the territory of the United States, and put Gulf of Mexico to the territorial part that corresponds to Mexico and Cuba.”
Mexico argues that the “Gulf of America” label should only be used for areas over the U.S. continental shelf.
The U.S. controls about 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls around 49%, and Cuba the remaining 5%, according to Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries.
“What Google is doing here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which applied only to the US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum said in February.
Meanwhile, the U.S. House has passed the Gulf of America Act, aiming to codify the new label into law. The bill now awaits debate in the Senate.
While the outcome of Mexico’s legal challenge remains uncertain, the broader implications are already clear: in the digital age, names are more than labels—they’re flashpoints. What started as a cartographic tweak has now become a symbol of deepening tensions between two neighbors already locked in high-stakes battles over trade, migration, and sovereignty.
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The gulf sits between the continents of North America and South America. Mexico is part of Central America. Cuba also borders the gulf. Seems logical to call it the Gulf of America.
Mexico is part of North America
Trump said he would change the name back to Gulf of Mexico one day a year if they would take back half of their citizens.
Lol
Anyone remember Peking? Names change all the time depending on the whim of the dominant culture or the loudest voice. When I started school the capital of China was Peking, when I finished, it was Beijing; same city, different name. No big deal.
Calcutta is now Kolkata
Bombay is now Mumbai
St. Petersburg was Peteograd, Leningrag, and is now St Petersberg again.
Burma is now Myanmar
The only constant is change.
Istanbul was Constantinople now it’s Istanbul now it’s Constantinople.
Ohh and even Old New York was once New Amsterdam…why’d they change it? I can’t say…some people just like it better that way.
Beat me to it. But it was running through my head before I even got to this comment.
Maybe time for a remake lol
me too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8
And let’s not forget The Congo, which became Zaire, and is now once again The Congo.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
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F the turks and tricycle they road in on.
Zimbabwe used to be called Rhodesia.
Why would someone downvote a factual statement? Snowflake much?
I’m so old that when the news about the India-Pakistan scuffle hit this week, I went to my Maps app to find out whether it was East Pakistan or West Pakistan. Apparently I missed a lot of memos (or swing tunes).
We have nothing better to do with our cartel-earned money, ergo we sue–every blue state.
Is there even a cognizable claim here? Its google’s map. They can label it Gulf of Pay My Legal Fees, or anything else if they want.
Native Americans should be upset with it being called Gulf of Mexico. They were here first and they called it by some other name.
NYC used to be called New Amsterdam, but Holland didn’t sue when the name was changed to New York.
They should be more upset with their own citizens who would rather risk their lives trying to escape from that craphole rather than continue to live there anymore.
They didn’t have any problem about how much of the Gulf was over whose tectonic plates when all of it was named after them.
It’s not the Gulf of USA, it’s the Gulf of America. Mexico is America, but America is not Mexico.
Failing that, maybe it’s time for a leveraged buyout of Cuba.
Even if Trump had named it The Gulf of the USA, so what? We can name things whatever the hell we want. The fact is that every country has done this, always.
Trump should rename Mexico, “Shitistan” … or, more appropriately “Diarrheastan”.
For Mexico to have its way… “Gulf of the Cartels”:.
Call it Gulf of North America and then only Cuba will be upset.
More than 20 million illegals live in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Maybe we should call it Gulf of Mexicans.
yes.
it is NOT the Gulf of the United States.
this country may be referred to as America, but that is not its name.
N double A CP is now NAACP.
Can’t allow one and not the other.
First of all, Mexico has no say over what anyone calls anything. Mexico can yelp all it wants about its pronouns but the fact is that Mexico doesn’t even speak English so they can just f*** off.
Where is this moronic insanity that countries think they can force others to call things what they want? Trump declared the American name of the gulf to be Gulf of America. SO, for us, and anyone who wants, that’s what it is. But everyone else calls it what they want. Hell, countries like Mexico call it something that isn’t even in English!
But … to put a fine point on all this, Trump should rename Mexico. I think it should be called “Montezuma’s Revenge Nation” from now on. We can label it MRN, for short.
Hi, I’m Montezuma’s Revenge Nation, My pronouns are dumb/sh*t.
Also, US companies shoudl sue Mexico and Mexicans every time they roll an “R” while pronouncing some American name, since there are no rolled “R”s in English and their bastardization of our names in Spanish is a harm and an affront.
Total insanity from countries and people who think they rule the world from their joke countries.
This battle is over. Mexico lost the war. Time to move on to things slightly more important than being a chihuahua barking at the moon.
There are no international treaties or conventions on how or why a geographical feature is named. Basically they have a name because people call it something until they don’t. The continental shelf thing is meaningless and since the US has a few hundred more miles of coastline on the Gulf than Mexico it makes Gulf of The Americas
Gulf of America or Gulf of The Americas. Mexico has no exclusive claim to it.
I wish there was an edit button
Just curious, where exactly did they file this “suit”? A Mexican court? An international body?
Almacén de Caballeros.
¿Qué? Probablemente no te des cuenta, porque lo disimulo muy bien, pero realmente no me gustan los juegos de palabras. De hecho, odio los juegos de palabras más que a los mimos, y realmente odio a los mimos. Ahora que lo hemos dejado claro, ¿esta historia era realmente un chiste que yo no entendí?
I see a lot of people go on about how long it’s been called the “Gulf of Mexico”. The use of “America” for the land mass (North, South, or Central) surrounding the water is equally old. The likely origin of the use of “Mexico” for the Gulf was because “Mexico” was coined by the Spanish to refer to their colonies which bordered that body of water. So in addition to deadnaming “Gulf of American”, the insistence on using “Gulf of Mexico” perpetuates the memory of the Spanish subjugation of the native American inhabitants of the region.
“We recognize and give honor to the original occupants of this Gulf, the marine life from whom our ancestors viciously appropriated their homeland in order to establish colonies, erasing its original native name of gronnnnnnnk-reeree-waaaaaaaaaaah-kikikikikikikikikikiki.”
It’s in English so we control it. Londres and London are not translations but names controlled by the language. Sim. Allemagne, Germany, Deutschland.
This is of SUPREME importance and we should thank Jesus for delivering such an awesome patriot to make this happen. GOD BLESS TRUMP AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
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Aside from disagreeing that this renaming is of any particular importance, this is certainly the only post the transvestite ever made that was factual and rational.
Maybe he’ll finally move out of his mom’s basement.
Your real meds, not your street meds.
Thank God Mexico has made this a priority. It’s sure going to be a huge victory against the drug cartels.
Right?
Pretty sure most of the Gulf of America is international waters. Countries can control the portion that’s within a certain distance of land they control, that’s all.
If Mexico wants to deadname the Gulf, I say let them. The rest of us will decide for ourselves.
Take me back to the Gulf of Mexico
You can’t go back to the Gulf of Mexico
Been a long time gone the Gulf of Mexico
Why has the Gulf of Mexico been shanked?
It’s nobody’s business but us Yanks
We are the big dog so we choose. That’s why Mexico is making a deal out of this. Life is tough deal with it.
Also we should start calling Beijing Peking again!
If you find “Beijing Duck” on the menu, walk out of that wokejoke Chitty Wok and find a real Chinese restaurant.
It would be on the page with the “new” Chicken Kyiv.
The funny thing is that “Kyiv” should be pronounced “Kee- iv”, not much different from the normal “Kiev”. In order to get the sound the snots are currently using for Kiev they’d have to name it “Keev” or Keave”. They might as well just spell it “Jjkxty” and pronounce it “keev”.
Glad to see that the House is finally getting around to passing important legislation
Don’t count your chicken of the sea before it’s canopened.
If the US is to be attacked from the Gulf, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard are the lines of defense.
If Mexico is to be attacked from the Gulf… they’d have to call us for help.
Hence, the Gulf of America.
I really don’t care what they call it.
Agreed. It’s insane how much time and political capital the Trump Administration and Trump supporters spend on this nonsense, including making Canada the 51st State and taking over Greenland, by force if necessary. It’s one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. It’s quite another thing to shoot yourself in the head.
All the best assault plans include numerous diversions, just to sucker folks like you.
I think it’s cute that Mexico thinks that they, and Cuba, control anything.
Mexico is a wholy owned subdivision of the cartels and Cuba? We use Cuba to dump garbage humans in Guantanamo.
The US controls the gulf. ALL of it.
Filed a lawsuit where? That is the keyest of all key information about this alleged suit, and yet neither this post nor the article linked to gives us a clue. “Filed a lawsuit” without saying where is meaningless. It’s impossible to understand it, let alone to usefully discuss it, without knowing with which entity it was filed, what jurisdiction that entity has, and under what law it operates.
How about the Sea of Cortez / Gulf of California
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