Gulf of Mexico: Politics and Government
(asked on 27th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in official documents.
Answered by
Catherine West
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 4th February 2025
We have long-standing processes on establishing geographical feature names for UK use, which will continue to govern future labelling.
It is a matter for the US how it labels geographical features around its own coastline.