• @[email protected]
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    814 months ago

    It’s still called “the Gulf of Mexico.”

    Some dumb bully gave it a dumb nickname and they’re acting like he legally changed it’s birth certificate.

    • The Menemen!
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      4 months ago

      It is not a country. So there is nothing like a UN defined name. So no one can force any country to name it the way they want. Don’t think it’s Trump decision. Maybe the U.S. Board of Geographic Names?

      Like you call it Persian Gulf, other countries call it Gulf of Arabia, and Turkey actually even calls it Gulf of Basra. (Btw, you legally have to call it Türkiye nowadays. It actually “changed it’s birth certificate” at the UN. Doubt you care about that.)

          • XIIIesq
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            4 months ago

            It’s pretty funny tbh, I’m waaaay too politically fatigued to get bent out of shape over things like that.

        • Echo Dot
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          24 months ago

          Surely if it was anything, the gulf of America would be off the coast of Florida, surrounding the islands.