Gulf of...

[Smellincoffee]

It'd be nice if some Trump-whisperer could get him to force the name Constantinople ^^
Not sure if the following is still a Trump-whisperer:

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He did a speech at CPAC that was....Dean-scream cringy.

To the original topic: those of us who live in Gulf states generally just call it The Gulf.

 

[Estebonrober]

What do you think? This body of water should be named after México or after USA?
Why a website as GoogleMaps can be the lord of the truth and just rename this body of water?

Uterine Gulf. Because the image reminds me of a uterus from the sagittal PoV

We will not discuss what this implies about Cuba

 

[Henri Christophe]

Cuba

Neither Mexico or America
It should be Cuban Gulf

 

[Cutlass]

Gulf de los Estados Unidos.

 

[Cutlass]

Okay, just call it "Gulfy McGulfface" and be done with it.

Sheesh.

I'm reminded of something I read in the paper (back when we had real newspapers) about the breakup of the Soviet Union. One of the publishing companies that does atlases had just finished updating their latest edition and the atlases were being printed and prepared for shipping to bookstores and schools and libraries... and then suddenly a whole continent was no longer accurate.

I have that atlas. I'd have to check, but think it was published just before Yugoslavia broke up.

 

[Kyriakos]

Not that this would play a role, but which country currently controls most of the land bordering the gulf?
I would suppose the US-though not by much. But back when it was renamed to Gulf of Mexico, maybe it was before the US-Mexican war (and obviously Mexico would have most of the land then).

At any rate it is sui generis to rename a body of water to remove a name (in this case 'Mexico'), when one of your actual states uses the same name (New Mexico).

 

[EnglishEdward]

New Mexico := New Trumpland

 

[Birdjaguar]

New Mexico := New Trumpland

We are very blue and would never change it.

 

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Trans Gulf

 

[amadeus]

Not that this would play a role, but which country currently controls most of the land bordering the gulf?

I asked this elsewhere about coastlines, and Mexico has a longer coast against the gulf. However, America has a larger EEZ within the gulf.

That’s a draw in my book.

 

[Arwon]

Not that this would play a role, but which country currently controls most of the land bordering the gulf?
I would suppose the US-though not by much. But back when it was renamed to Gulf of Mexico, maybe it was before the US-Mexican war (and obviously Mexico would have most of the land then).

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At any rate it is sui generis to rename a body of water to remove a name (in this case 'Mexico'), when one of your actual states uses the same name (New Mexico).

The name of the body of water predates the country officially being called Mexico, and possibly helped reinforce that name as an alternative name for the land area.

It was being called the Mexican Gulf or Gulf of Mexico on maps in reference to the Mexica people of central Mexico, when the political entity was still the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

 

[Arwon]

Or, depending on which kind of hockey, both countries are ranked in the 20s or 30s (and Cuba around 40!) - https://www.fih.hockey/outdoor-hockey-rankings

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm talking about the most recent game. Canada beat the U.S., 3-2 in overtime.