Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday she asked Google not to turn the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America.

The tech giant said this week it will implement the new name mandated by the Trump administration, along with Denali’s reversion to Mount McKinley, once the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System is updated.

Ms. Sheinbaum contends that, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that went into effect in 1994, a sovereign country controls waters up to only 12 nautical miles from its coastline. As such, she said, the new name should be applicable to only America’s zone extending from its coasts as opposed to the whole of the current Gulf of Mexico.

Ms. Sheinbaum also said the body of water’s current name is registered with the International Hydrographic Organization that both countries belong to, and asked Google to implement a “Mexican America” designation to much of North America.

The designation of “America Mexicana” in Spanish was used for a 1607 map used by Dutch merchants and in the 1814 Constitution of Apatzingan drafted during Mexico’s War of Independence from Spain, according to NBC News.

In a thread this week on X about the name changes, Google said users will see the name preferred by their country and that foreigners outside both countries will see both names. For example, a Japanese would see Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water between Japan, Russia and South Korea, while a South Korean would see East Sea.

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A dual name is already used for the Rio Grande, because while that is what Americans call the river, Mexicans call it the Rio Bravo. Both names are visible in Google Maps.

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