The U.S. Coast Guard has started calling the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin changing the name.
The Coast Guard earlier this week announced it would be deploying assets to different locations, including to “the maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America,” according to The Hill newspaper.
It will likely take the Department of the Interior time to change the name formally.
Following his presidential victory, Trump promised to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
The Gulf of Mexico is a body of water to the south of the United States and is loosely bound by the western shore of Florida, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, the coastline in between both, and the island of Cuba. […]
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