Key Takeaways
- US President Donald Trump orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America through an Executive Order.
- The Executive Order requires the Secretary of the Interior to rename the US Continental Shelf area bounded by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida to the Gulf of America.
- The change will be reflected in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database, which stores information about geographic features in the US.
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered renaming the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, according to an executive order published by the White House.
“Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall… take all appropriate actions to rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico,” the order read.
The secretary will also have to remove all references to the Gulf of Mexico, formerly known as the Gulf of America, in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database to reflect the change.
