Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 4 February 2025.
Alison Griffiths
Conservative, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in official documents.
Catherine West
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We have long-standing processes on establishing geographical feature names for UK use, which will continue to govern future labelling.
It is a matter for the US how it labels geographical features around its own coastline.
Yes3 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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