Gulf of America

English

Etymology

• (Nakhodka Bay): Partial calque of Russian зали́в Америка (zalív Amerika), from зали́в (zalív, “gulf, bay”) and the name of the Russian corvette Америка (Amerika) that discovered the bay.
• (Gulf of Mexico): A renaming by US president Donald Trump.

Proper noun

the Gulf of America

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Nakhodka Bay.

   Synonym: Amerika Bay

   Alternative form: Gulf of Amerika

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Gulf of America.
2. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (neologism) Official (in the US) but internationally unrecognized name for the Gulf of Mexico.
   • 2025 January 21, Louis Casiano, “Coast Guard surging assets to Gulf of America, other waterways to support Trump’s executive orders”, in Fox News‎^[1]:

     Lunday also wrote in the release that the agency would target the "maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America."

   • 2025 January 28, Jordan Valinsky, “Google Maps will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Gulf of America.

Translations

Gulf of Mexico

• French: golfe de l’Amérique (fr) m, golfe d’Amérique (fr) m
• German: Golf von Amerika m
• Icelandic: Ameríkuflói m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amerikagolfen m

• Romanian: Golful Americii
• Spanish: golfo de América m, golfo de los Estados Unidos m
• Tagalog: Golpo ng Amerika
• Vietnamese: vịnh Mỹ, vịnh Mĩ, vịnh châu Mỹ, vịnh châu Mĩ, vịnh Mỹ châu, vịnh Hoa Kỳ, vịnh Hoa Kì, vịnh của Mỹ

See also

• American Mediterranean Sea