After Trump's contentious renaming of the Gulf of Mexico causes tensions on the diplomatic and digital map fronts, Mexico files a lawsuit against Google.

U.S. President Donald Trump changed the Gulf of Mexico's name to the Gulf of America by executive order, and Mexico has sued Google for doing so, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday.

Sheinbaum stated that Google had been sued during her daily press briefing, but she did not elaborate on the specifics of the case.

Google has previously received letters from Mexico's Foreign Relations Ministry requesting that it refrain from referring to Mexican territorial waters as the Gulf of America. A request for comment was not immediately answered by Google.

Mexico and the United States share boundaries with the body of water. Mexico and other nations and international organizations are not required to acknowledge the name change, and Trump's proclamation only has legal force within the United States.

According to Mexico, the Gulf of America should only include the section that crosses the US continental shelf.

In February, following Trump's designation of the body of water as the Gulf of America, Sheinbaum posted a letter from Cris Turner, Google's vice president of government relations & public policy, indicating that Google will not alter its established practices.

The gulf is currently referred to as the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico, the Gulf of America in the United States, and the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) in other locations on Google Maps. According to Turner's letter, the company was using the Gulf of America to fairly and consistently follow established map guidelines in every region.

That moniker has been applied to the Gulf of Mexico for almost 400 years. The Associated Press acknowledges Trump's new name but nevertheless calls it by its former name. In February, the White House took action to prevent the AP from being one of the select few reporters who may cover Trump in the Oval Office or on Air Force One, with the occasional opportunity to do so at events held in the East Room.