Britain will not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America despite Donald Trump’s order for it to be renamed.
According to The Telegraph, Britain will continue to call the body of water by its current name unless the new title ordered by Mr Trump gains widespread usage in English.
The US president instructed the US Board on Geographic Names to change the gulf’s name within hours of taking office on Monday, after arguing that the ocean basin was “ours” and the US did “most of the work there”.
The name will change on official maps in the US within 30 days. Some navigation apps, including Google Maps, are under pressure from Republicans to change it immediately.
However, Mr Trump cannot change the name used by other countries or by international organizations because the Gulf is an international body of water with coastlines in the US, Mexico, and Cuba.
The Telegraph understands the name will not change on official maps in Britain unless “Gulf of America” becomes the most commonly used name for it by English speakers. Officials believe that is not likely for some time, if at all.
A source said the gulf’s name “cannot be universally changed by a single country” and that the new name ordered by Mr. Trump “will not apply to UK products”.
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