Gulf of America

English thumb|240px|U.S. Geological Survey map, February 2025 Etymology en gulf America Nakhodka Bay en ru зали́в Америка, from ru зали́в gulf, bay and the name of the Russian corvette ru Америка that discovered the bay. Gulf of Mexico A renaming of the oceanic basin by US president Donald Trump in 2025, although earlier uses exist. Proper noun gulf of America 1 en obsolete en Nakhodka Bay: en bay city/Nakhodka krai/Primorsky c/Russia. en Gulf of Amerika en Amerika Bay en en neologism US politics geography en Gulf of Mexico: en gulf/marginal sea ocean/Atlantic off continent/North America north of the Caribbean Sea, confined by c/Mexico c/Cuba c/USA. en Bay of Mexico obsolete Gulf of Mexico en 2008 Joseph A. Gillan 29 Just before the Dawn: Rebecca Remembered https://archive.org/details/justbeforedawnre0000gill/ Fiction Sarasota, Florida LIKAJE Books 978-0-9820171-4-2 2008907010 636680632 177 https://archive.org/details/justbeforedawnre0000gill/page/177/ Siesta Key is touched on its south by Sarasota Bay and on its north by The Gulf of Mexico, which Rollie called "the Gulf of America.""It is here, in Sarasota, in the U-S-of-A, it is here legally, it is not unemployed and it does not carry a shiv or eat tacos.""It's the Gulf of America!""I see nothing Mexican about that body of water at all." en 2011 Ken Jennings Ken Jennings Benchmarks Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks https://archive.org/details/mapheadchartingw00jenn/ Scribner 978-1-4391-6717-5 2010052219 687665983 72 https://archive.org/details/mapheadchartingw00jenn/page/72/ It's hard for Americans to understand the patriotism that can get bound up in place-names. We're a young country. We're also accustomed, in our cockeyed cowboy fashion, to everything else revolving around us, so we can afford to let slide the fact that, say, the Gulf of Mexico isn't called the Gulf of America. (Although, according to John Hebert, that is the pet issue of one frequent complainant to the Board on Geographic Names.) en 2012 Steve Holland AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT FOR ALL OFFICIAL PURPOSES WITHIN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE BODY OF WATER LOCATED DIRECTLY SOUTH OF HANCOCK, HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTIES SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE "GULF OF AMERICA"; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. Mississippi Legislature https://web.archive.org/web/20120226230730/https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/HB/0100-0199/HB0150IN.pdf https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/HB/0100-0199/HB0150IN.pdf February 26, 2012 For all official purposes within the State of Mississippi, the body of water that is located directly south of Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties shall be known as the "Gulf of America." en Louis Casiano Coast Guard surging assets to Gulf of America, other waterways to support Trump’s executive orders w:Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coast-guard-surging-assets-gulf-america-other-waterways-support-trumps-executive-orders 2025-01-21 Kevin Lunday Lunday also wrote in the release that the agency would target the "maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America." https://web.archive.org/web/20251114023734/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coast-guard-surging-assets-gulf-america-other-waterways-support-trumps-executive-orders en Jordan Valinsky Google Maps will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/tech/google-maps-gulf-of-mexico-america/index.html 2025-01-28 Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. https://web.archive.org/web/20250321140550/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/tech/google-maps-gulf-of-mexico-america/index.html en 2026 July W.E. Pine; J.F. Moore; M. Dodrill; J. Aufmuth; M. Moreno; et al. Restoration is a partial but not complete solution for long-term declines in oyster populations—A case history from the northeastern Gulf of America Marine and Coastal Fisheries 18 4 10.1093/mcfafs/vtag006 2 Informing oyster restoration and fishery management in the Gulf of America is both urgent and complex. en Translations Gulf of Mexico French: fr golfe de l'Amérique m, fr golfe d'Amérique m, fr golfe du Mexique m German: de Golf von Amerika m Hindi: hi अमेरिका की खाड़ी f Icelandic: is Ameríkuflói m Malay: ms Teluk Mexico Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Amerikagolfen m Polish: pl Zatoka Amerykańska f Portuguese: pt golfo da América Romanian: ro Golful Americii Russian: ru Америка́нский зали́в m Spanish: es golfo de América m, es golfo de los Estados Unidos m, es golfo de México m Swedish: sv Mexikanska golfen c Tagalog: tl Golpo ng Amerika Vietnamese: vi vịnh Mỹ, vi vịnh Mĩ, vi vịnh châu Mỹ, vi vịnh châu Mĩ, vi vịnh Mỹ châu, vi vịnh Hoa Kỳ, vi vịnh Hoa Kì, vi vịnh của Mỹ See also en Lake America<t:Lake Ontario> New America<t:New Mexico> Strait of Trump<t:Strait of Hormuz> en Donald Trump Nationalism