Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico officially renamed Gulf of America

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Gulf of Mexico rename among Trump Day 1 orders

Trump squad announces renaming of Gulf of Mexico, Mt. Denali among Day 1 enforcement orders 03:56

The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America, the Interior Department announced Friday, portion the sanction of North America's highest peak, Alaska's Denali, has been changed backmost to Mount McKinley, some moves are successful effect to a arguable enforcement order signed by President Trump aft helium took office.

The Interior Department said successful a quality merchandise that the sanction changes "reaffirm the Nation's committedness to preserving the bonzer practice of the United States and ensuring that aboriginal generations of Americans observe the bequest of its heroes and historical assets."

The department's U.S. Board connected Geographic Names volition present beryllium tasked with updating "the authoritative national nomenclature successful the Geographic Names Information System to bespeak these changes, effectual instantly for national use," the bureau added.

While the Gulf of America volition beryllium applied to national references, different nations volition not beryllium required to admit the name.

Mexico and the U.S. stock a astir adjacent fig of coastline miles on the gulf. According to the U.S. State Department, the maritime borderline successful the gulf betwixt the U.S. and Mexico begins astatine the halfway of the rima of the Rio Grande, wherever it whitethorn beryllium located, and runs successful a fixed line. For the astir part, the U.S. has maritime jurisdiction implicit its information of the Gulf of Mexico portion Mexico has jurisdiction implicit its portion.

During the statesmanlike modulation Trump disclosed his plans to alteration the gulf's name. In response, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a quality conference wherever she stood earlier a 17th-century satellite representation and jokingly suggested that North America should beryllium renamed "Mexican America."

In 2015, Mount McKinley was renamed by then-President Barack Obama to Denali, the accepted Native Alaskan name. It had agelong informally been known successful Alaska arsenic Denali, contempt the authoritative national designation being Mount McKinley. 

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska past period criticized Trump's program to alteration Denali's name.

"You can't amended upon the sanction that Alaska's Koyukon Athabascans bestowed connected North America's tallest peak, Denali – the Great One," Murkowski said successful a statement. "For years, I advocated successful Congress to reconstruct the rightful sanction for this majestic upland to respect Alaska's archetypal radical who person lived connected these lands for thousands of years. This is an contented that should not beryllium relitigated."

Caroline Linton, Olivia Rinaldi and Kathryn Watson contributed to this report.

Faris Tanyos

Faris Tanyos is simply a quality exertion for CBSNews.com, wherever helium writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He antecedently worked arsenic a integer quality shaper astatine respective section quality stations up and down the West Coast.

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