To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in official documents.
Answered on
4 February 2025
We have long-standing processes on establishing geographical feature names for UK use, which will continue to govern future labelling.
It is a matter for the US how it labels geographical features around its own coastline.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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