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Mexico’s president explains 'in detail' why Google shouldn't rename Gulf of Mexico

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President Claudia Sheinbaum says she sent a letter to Google asking the company not to comply with President Donald Trump 's order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico .

The Mexican government says the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory only extends up to 12 nautical miles out from the coastline.

Google did not immediately respond to a USA TODAY request for comment.