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Mexico should officially rename the US to "North Mexico".
by vkou 2y ago
Mexico should officially rename the US to "North Mexico".
- IncreasePosts 2y agoFine then, display that to users in Mexico if that's the law.
- vkou 2y agoThe "Gulf of America" also appears to non-US users.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWho does it appear to? If that's an issue, then pass a law in Mexico saying the name needs to be presented a certain way.
- vladvasiliu 2y agoIn France on the iPhone GMaps app, it appears as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”. It’s the same on Apple Maps. Bing maps in a browser says “Gulf of America”.
- abeppu 2y agoOk, totally not the point ... but a big chunk of what is now the US was Mexico, and the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo (and to a lesser extent the Gadsden Purchase) officially handed it over -- so I think Mexico may actually have formally agreed that we're not North Mexico.
- wakawaka28 2y agoThe difference is, of course, that the Gulf of Mexico is about as related to Mexico as New Mexico is to Mexico. That is to say, it's not theirs at all. Furthermore, "America" is a general geographic region and not technically exclusive to the United States. We are both in North America.