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US geographic naming controversy since 2025
The Gulf of Mexico became the center of a geographical naming dispute in the United States when U.S. president Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14172 directing U.S. federal agencies to refer to it as the "Gulf of America". Issued on the day of his second inauguration, the executive order only requires the U.S. executive branch to use this nomenclature, although major online map platforms and some U.S.-based media outlets have voluntarily made the change.
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The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. One of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. As of June 2026, The New York Times had 13.35 million total subscribers: 550,000 print and 12.8 million digital, both the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States by a significant margin. The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company.
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Marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean
The Gulf of Mexico is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. 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 southeast by Cuba.
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