The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley.

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."

The owner of Gulfofamerica.com remains unknown but the website – it sells maps, globes and other gear – is registered to domain registrar NameBright.

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.

For nearly half a century, there’s been little thought about the name Congress gave to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council — until now. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an order to rename the waterbody to the “Gulf of America” on federal agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications.

Gov. Ron DeSantis may have been the first official to use President's Trump's new name for the Gulf of Mexico in an official capacity.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

The federal government is following through on President Trump’s pledge to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It is also working to restore the name Mount McKinley to America’s tallest mountain, whose name was changed to Denali, its Native American name, by the Obama Administration ten years ago.

The department said the U.S. Board on Geographic Names is working to update the “official federal nomenclature in the Geographic Names Information System” to reflect Trump’s executive order. The department said these changes would be effective immediately for federal use. Copyright 2025 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that they will implement President Trump’s name change for the Gulf Coast.

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.