Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

The Gulf of Mexico will remain the Gulf of Mexico for Mexico and the world, regardless of US President Donald Trump's executive order, stated Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, according to ABC News.

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.