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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(27 January 2025)

Question Asked

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.

Asked by:
Alison Griffiths (Conservative)

Answer

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.


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