Mexican President Claudia Shinbom wrote a letter to Google asking the company to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that requires the naming of the water body – bordered by the United States, Cuba and Mexico – in the Gulf of America in his first week in office.
But it will only appear on Google Maps with the new name for people who are taking in the United States – elsewhere in the world, which will keep its current name, which has been used for hundreds of years.
There is no international organization responsible for naming water bodies.
But Mexico argues that the United States cannot legally change the Gulf name because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that the individual sovereignty area reaches only 12 nautical miles from the coastal line.
“(Changing the name) can only correspond to 12 nautical miles, the coast coasts for the United States of America,” said Shinbom.
Google has not yet responded to the BBC for comment.
But in a statement on social media on Monday, he said: “We have a long -term practice to apply names changes when they are updated in official government sources.”
Mount Denali will also be renamed in the role of Mount McKinley in the United States, after another order from Trump.
“When the official names differ between countries, users see their official local name,” he said.
Shinbom criticized Google's decision, saying that the company should not respond to a “state of a country” to change the name “International Sea”.
But she seemed to make fun of Trump's move through Mexico's banter, may demand Google for some additional reproduction decisions.
“By the way, we will also ask that Mexican America appear on the map,” she said.
Shenbum had previously joking that she would consider North America “America Mexicana” in the country.
“He says he will be called the Gulf of America on its continental shelf,” Shinbom said previously when Trump signed the executive order.
“For us, the Gulf of Mexico is still, and for the whole world, the Gulf of Mexico is still.”
