Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."

Originally known as Mount McKinley, named after the 19th-century Republican president, it was renamed Denali in 2015 to honor Alaska’s indigenous people

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States,

President Donald Trump issued an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Federal changes have to be made, but other countries and private companies can keep using "Gulf of Mexico." Here's why.

On President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, Governor Ron DeSantis made Florida the first state to reference the "Gulf of America" in an executive order when he issued a state of emergency due to cold weather.

As president, Trump can take the action to rename the body of water, although other countries don’t have to adopt the new name.

The owner of Gulfofamerica.com remains unknown but the website – it sells maps, globes and other gear – is registered to domain registrar NameBright.

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.

President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.

While a name change for the Gulf of Mexico could be applied for federal references, other nations have no obligation to follow suit.