US President Donald Trump has ordered that the body of water be renamed the Gulf of America.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has written a letter to Google asking the firm to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
But it will only appear on Google Maps with the new name for people based in the US - elsewhere in the world it will retain its current name, which has been used for hundreds of years.But Mexico argues the U.S. cannot legally change the Gulf's name because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory only extends up to 12 nautical miles out from the coastline.
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