The Gulf of Mexico is far from the only contentious body of water in the world. Several have different names in different countries, reflecting territorial disputes or broader geopolitical tensions.

But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico, as well as Cuba, started after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dub the Gulf ...

The Gulf of Mexico is a water body, bound by Cuba ... I will delete google and use DuckDuckGo and Apple maps. — UncleTummy No Blue checkmark but voting Blue (@UncleTummyTX) January 29, 2025 ...

but the Gulf of Mexico is a different issue," Zierler told BI. "Internationally, there have always been differences among countries about what to name specific bodies of water, islands ...

The drop in water temperature was so significant that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports more than 1,000 sea turtles were rescued off the state's coast after being cold-stunned ...

"We broke it, we bought it." More than half of Florida's coast borders the Gulf of Mexico, a partially landlocked body of water between the United States and Mexico that links ports in five ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been so named at least since the late 1600s, when it was used to describe the body of water that's bordered to the north by the United States' southern coast, from Texas to ...