The Gulf of Mexico will now appear as the Gulf of America for U.S. users of Apple Maps, Bing Maps and Google Maps.

In response, Sheinbaum sarcastically remarked that North America should be called "América Mexicana" — "Mexican America" — because a 17th-century map labeled the continent as such.

Currently on the app-based version of the map, when the Gulf is viewed zoomed in in the U.S., the label shows as Gulf of America, but when viewed further out, the label changes to "Gulf of Mexico ...