“Under the purview of the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names is working expeditiously to update the official federal nomenclature.
In the Geographic Names Information System to reflect these changes, effective immediately for federal usage.”
Though America will now refer to the Gulf of America, the same cannot be true of the rest of the globe.
For instance, The Independent claims the UK will keep knowing it as the Gulf of Mexico and won’t change maps to have to read otherwise.
Maps will only be changed should Gulf of America take front stage as the most often used term for the ocean basin—something not predicted
