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As much as "changing" the name is stupid, Google isn't here to pick battles between countries.

Quick check shows that google.com.mx shows it always as "Gulfo de Mexico". That's all that matters.

In Canada, I see the "new" name along with Gulf of Mexico. Seems like a weird take. Every sovereign island should start naming it a different way, I'd like to see if Google would display 27 names for the same Gulf...

Edit: I'm wrong here. They are doing it based on IP address, not domain for some reason. https://www.google.de/maps will show the parenthetical only when accessing it via a non-US IP and will show just "Gulf of America" when on a US IP even on that domain.

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I don't know why they decided to to do that in Canada. In the UK (for example), it only says "Gulf of America", same with Germany.

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