Mexico asks Google Maps not to rename the Gulf of Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Shainbaum wrote a letter to Google asking the company to review its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

US President Donald Trump has signed an enforcement order that requires water fluid – bordering the US, Cuba and Mexico – to be renamed the Bay of the US Gulf during his first week of service.

But it will only appear on Google Maps with the new name for people with headquarters in the United States – elsewhere in the world will retain its current name, which has been used for hundreds of years.

There is no international organization responsible for the name of water bodies.

But Mexico claims that the United States cannot legally change the name of the Persian Gulf, since the Convention of the United Nations on the Law of the Sea dictates that the sovereign territory of an individual country extends only to 12 nautical miles from the coastline.

“(Changing the name) can only match the 12 nautical miles from the banks of the United States,” Shainbaum said.

Google has not yet answered the BBC request for comment.

But a statement on social media on Monday said: “We have many years of practice to make changes in the name when they are updated in official government sources.”

He will also rename Mount Denali as McKinley Peak in the United States, following another Trump command.

“When the official names vary between the countries, card users see their official local name,” the message said.

Shainbaum criticized Google’s decision by saying that the company should not respond to the “mandate of a country” to change the name of the International Sea.

But she seemed to have fun in Trump’s movement by joking Mexico, she may ask Google to take some additional renaming repairs.

“By the way, we will also ask for Mexican America to appear on the map,” she said.

Previously, Shainbaum joked that he would consider the renaming of North America as “América Mexicana” in the country.

“He says he will call him the Gulf of the US Gulf on his continental shelf,” Shainbaum said before, when Trump signed the executive order.

“For us, this is still the Gulf of Mexico, and for the whole world it is still the Gulf of Mexico.”