What's in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers whether it’s called the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been for four centuries,

The president-elect told reporters Tuesday that he wanted the body of water called the Gulf of America, but he provided no details on how the change would be enacted.

Donald Trump has stirred the pot by bringing up the hotly debated ideas of renaming the Gulf of Mexico and 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal. Find out what the law has to say about these proposals