The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Sheinbaum Pardo projected a map authored in 1607 that labels a rough drawing of North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America, and also names the Gulf of Mexico, already at the time a ...

4 days ago · Following President Trump’s order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, at least in the United States, Mexicans and Cubans expressed annoyance, defiance, confusion and even amusement.

2 days ago · Names given to the gulf have little bearing on the strange happenings beneath its surface, from fatal pools to coral habitats. The gulf is home to ancient salt deposits. Some are near cold...

Jan 21, 2025 · Topline. President Donald Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America on federal documents "in recognition of this ...

3 days ago · The Gulf of Mexico is a water body, bound by Cuba, eastern states in Mexico: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo; and states on the Gulf Coast of the United States ...

Jan 20, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” repeating an idea he first brought up earlier this month during a news conference.

2 days ago · Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum suggests the United States should be called ‘Mexican America’, in response to Trump's proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico, on January 8, 2025.

5 days ago · The Gulf of Mexico name will appear first for these users, followed by the Gulf of America name in parentheses, said two people with knowledge of the company’s plans, who were not authorized to ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent. It is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Florida, running between the peninsula of Florida and the island of Cuba, and to the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatan Channel.