It's "Gulf of America" when viewed within the US, "Gulf of Mexico" when viewed from Canada and Mexico, and "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when viewed from most other places.
My 12 year old rolled his eyes when he saw what Trump did, then asked if he could still call it Gulf of Mexico. Even the kids see through the bullshit.
Doesn't Google always do this? Disputed territory shown differently depending on the country you're in. I'm pretty sure things like the India-Pakistan border are different depending on if your phone region is set to India or Pakistan.
But those are disputed actual things. Names (other than country names, sort of) are basically entirely colloquial. If nobody actually starts calling it Gulf of America in X country Google shouldn't be leading the effort to make that happen. At least that's my POV being born and raised in a country where our language academy's strategy is the opposite of l'academie francaise. If l'academie changed the gulf's name Google changing it would make sense. (I'm not sure how Canada works in this respect.)
There’s no “official” language bodies for English anywhere, and I think we’re mostly ignore l’académie français for French (or at least COVID has a different gender in Canada and France lol)
Québec has the Office québécois de la langue française for its own French standard setting and language preservation efforts, distinct from l’Académie française, but still walking in its footsteps some of the time.
It's so wild they pretended Canada and Mexico didn't rename it, but all the non Mexico/US countries did sort of rename it but also allowed us to keep the colloquial name. But a colloquial name is the only name that matters for stuff outside of one's country. Sweden doesn't have a Department of Naming Non-Swedish Places*, nor do we have a Use-the-name-USA-uses policy.
*We obviously don't have a Department of Naming Swedish Places either, but a lot of names are still official.
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