The system's new description for the Gulf, an ocean basin that shares nearly equal lengths of shoreline with the U.S. and Mexico, reads: "The Gulf of America, formerly known as th

Google's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico comes weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to rename it to the Gulf of America.

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the Gulf of Mexico.