The Mexican government has filed a lawsuit against Google to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the U.S. Gulf within the U.S. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at a press conference that the lawsuit had been filed, but guardian Note that she did not say when and where to submit it. Sheinbaum argued that the Trump administration's name change order only applies to the U.S. part of the ocean basin, and the U.S. government does not have the authority to rename all waters. “All we want is to comply with the laws issued by the U.S. government,” she said.
Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States, which opened maps in the United States in February. It first announced that it would do so last month and said it was only waiting for the U.S. government to make official changes in the Geographic Name Information System (GNIS), which is a “federal and national geo-naming standard.” BBC The Mexican government wrote to Google at the time to make it reconsider and then eventually threatened legal proceedings.
When Google announced a change of name for a U.S. user, it explained that it followed a long-term exercise to show the official name in the map between countries. In Mexico, the basin is still known as the Gulf of Mexico, and it is shown as the “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of the United States)” for users outside of both countries.
