Google Maps ... and Florida. Google says it follows the GNIS, or Geographic Names Information System, a US database of location information. Users in Mexico will continue to see “Gulf of Mexico ...

Following the lead of the Geographic Names Information System, Google has changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America ...

The former Gulf of Mexico has officially been designated as the Gulf of America. Sort of. Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water west of Florida as the Gulf ...

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water bound to the east by Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the west by Texas and Mexico, is now the Gulf of America.