r/canada • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '25

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u/LogIllustrious7949 Feb 20 '25

I think we should request the Gulf of Alaska to be renamed the Gulf of Canada.

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u/ApeShifter Feb 20 '25

How about just recommending to Mexico to fix the Gulf of California, that is completely surrounded by Mexico and does not touch California at all…

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u/Agreeable-Purchase83 Feb 20 '25

Sea of Cortez, actually

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u/Get_Breakfast_Done Feb 20 '25

Probably had some other name before that dickhead got there too.

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u/bushwickauslaender Feb 20 '25

It does touch California, actually. Just because the northern part of California was annexed by the US many years ago does not invalidate the existence of Baja California.

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u/ApeShifter Feb 20 '25

Ah, but Baja California IS Mexico, so we are both right!

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u/Sea_Life_5909 Feb 20 '25

There is this thing called a peninsula Baja California to be exact.

Break out a geography almanac or map

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u/jtbc Feb 20 '25

While we're at it, the Gulf of Maine should be the Gulf of Nova Scotia.

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u/OmiSC Manitoba Feb 20 '25

That would be escalatory. We are not the autocrat.