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The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but most of the body of water lies outside maritime regions controlled by the United States.
According to calculations by Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries, the United States lays claim to 46 percent of the gulf, while Mexico lays claim to 49 percent.
Maritime zones are divided into categories based on distance from the coast. Territorial seas lie closest to a nation’s shore, and the laws of a country apply within and below those waters the way they do on land, for the most part.
Farther beyond the shore, a country’s exclusive economic zone is where it controls what is in the water, like fish, as well as what is in and below the seabed, like oil and gas. Additionally, the gulf contains sections of so-called high seas, where a country might also retain rights only to the natural resources of the seabed and subsoil.
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