US President-elect Donald Trump has announced his bid to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America' after he takes office. Trump claims that the US does most of the work in the gulf and believes it belongs to America. However, changing the name of an international waterbody is not a unilateral decision and may face international backlash. The International Hydrographic Organisation is responsible for naming waterbodies and countries may refer to them by different names in their own documentation. Trump's proposal has sparked criticism from historians and foreign policy experts.
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