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The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America"
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Looks like the thread is gone now, what was the discussion like?
To put it simple, they say each country can decide what name to use for where, and that's what OSM uses as a reference.
What it is called however is not by defined by what the president says alone though, it has to go through the entire government bureaucracy thing.