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Interior Department Says Gulf of Mexico Is Now ‘Gulf of America’

President Trump appears to have the executive authority to change the name that Americans use to denote the Gulf of Mexico, but other countries do not have to go along with it.Credit...Todd Anderson for The New York Times
President Trump appears to have the executive authority to change the name that Americans use to denote the Gulf of Mexico, but other countries do not have to go along with it (Credit...Todd Anderson for The New York Times)

The Trump administration said on Friday that it had followed through on the president’s promises to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and return Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, to its earlier name, Mount McKinley.

Changing the name of the Gulf as it is used in the United States is within the administration’s power. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has already started using the name “Gulf of America,” putting it in a winter weather warning that an area of low pressure was moving “across the Gulf of America” toward Florida.

Other countries don’t have to follow suit, though. When President Trump first announced his plan for the name changes, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico responded by suggesting America should be renamed América Mexicana, or Mexican America.

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“The Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the most vital assets in the Nation’s history and economy,” the Interior Department said in a statement on Friday.

The agency on Friday also said the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a federal body that oversees standardized geographic names, is working “expeditiously” to fulfill Mr. Trump’s order to restore the name of the former president, William McKinley, to the Alaska peak.

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