Gulf of America
……..The U.S. cannot unilaterally change the name of a body of water which it shares with Cuba and Mexico 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 from the coastline, she noted.
“If a country wants to change the designation of something in the sea, it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles,” Sheinbaum told reporters. “It cannot apply to the rest, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico. This is what we explained in detail to Google.”
But in a tit for tat, Sheinbaum is calling on Google to display the map of América Mexicana as including regions of the United States.
"We ask that when you put América Mexicana in the search engine, the map appears that we presented,” she told Google…….
Google has not responded to questions from
The Independent on whether it will include sections of the U.S. on América Mexicana on Google Maps – once the switch is recorded in official Mexican documents, which is apparently the sole Google requirement for such a change.
The name América Mexicana was first seen on maps in 1607. It includes various areas in what is currently known as the United States.……