BBC Verify: Can Donald Trump really rename the Gulf of Mexico?

The new US President wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. How would that work?

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Among them is a direction to rename the Gulf of Mexico the ''Gulf of America''. BBC Verify's Jake Horton asks, can the president really do that?

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