MEXICO CITY, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Mexican President

Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday said Google is wrong to

change the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its Google Maps

platform after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the body of

water be renamed the "Gulf of America."

Sheinbaum presented a letter addressed to Google in

which her government argues the U.S. cannot unilaterally change

the name of a body of water which it shares with Cuba and

Mexico.

The move comes after Google said on Monday that

Google Maps will change the name

of the "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" for U.S. users

once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names

System.

The change will be visible in the U.S., but the name

will remain "Gulf of Mexico" in Mexico. Outside of the two

countries, users will see both names on Google Maps.

Sheinbaum and Trump have

sparred over the name change

, with the Mexican president previously joking that if the

countries were starting to rename things then perhaps North

America should be called "Mexican America" after a map of the

region from 1607.

According to Mexico, the U.S. cannot legally change the

Gulf's name because 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 (about 22

kilometers) out from the coastline.

"[The name change] could only correspond to the 12

nautical miles away from the coastlines of the United States of

America," Sheinbaum said as she read the letter in her regular

morning press conference.

Sheinbaum added that Mexico had asked Google to

prominently display the map of Mexican America.

"We ask that when you put Mexican America in the search

engine, the map appears that we presented."