During her regular morning press conference, Sheinbaum rejected Google's decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, as President Donald Trump did, and added that the president's decree is limited to the "continental shelf of the United States."
"We have sovereignty over our continental shelf," expressed the president. Sheinbaum indicated that despite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sending a letter to Google expressing that they are "wrong" and that "the entire Gulf of Mexico cannot be called the Gulf of America," the company has insisted on maintaining the designation.
The AP sent an email to Google requesting a response to the Mexican president's statement, but has not received a response at this time.
Last month, Google announced on its X account, formerly Twitter, that it has a "long-standing practice of making name changes when they have been updated in official government sources."
The company stated that Maps will reflect any updates to the Geographic Names Information System, a database of over 1 million geographic sites in the United States. Sheinbaum has repeatedly defended the name of the Gulf of Mexico, stating that the designation has existed since 1607 and is recognized by the United Nations.
She has also mentioned that according to the Apatzingán constitution, which was the immediate predecessor to Mexico's first Magna Carta, the territory of North America was previously identified as "Mexican America." In that sense, Sheinbaum said they would ask Google that when one searches for "Mexican America," the map appears.
This is not the first time Mexicans and Americans have disagreed on the names of key geographical areas, such as the border river between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.
Mexico calls it the Rio Bravo, while the United States refers to it as the Rio Grande.