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Hello, now if you were listening to the last episode of Newscast, you will have heard me talking to Sumi in Washington, D.C.

And with a big, dramatic flourish, I said, check your Google maps to see what the Gulf of Mexico is called.

And whether Google have introduced Donald Trump's new policy of calling it the Gulf of America.

And at the point of recording, it was still the Gulf of Mexico of calling it the Gulf of America. And at the point of

recording, it was still the Gulf of Mexico, just the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps. But then once the

episode had dropped, we got an update from newscaster Jean-Claude, who lives in Montreal, in Canada,

who sent us a screen grab of his Google Maps, which showed it had both names.

So it was updated pretty sharpishly after we'd finished recording, which got my inner geographer

thinking, what other areas have got brackets on them on Google Maps?

And so we found a few.

There's the Persian Gulf, which is also known as the Arabian Gulf.

And back in 2012, there was actually

legal action aimed Google's way from Iran because they were annoyed that it wasn't labeled as the

Persian Gulf. And then the Japan Sea, which I didn't really know it was actually even called

that, if I'm honest, is also known as the East Sea. And the reason there's two different names is because of a

debate between South Korea and Japan about what the right name is. I think this could be a very

fertile territory for you to email us, though. So if you've got other examples of interesting

disputed names, whether they're on well-known mapping apps or not, let us know, newscast at

BBC.co.uk. And I don't mean just like the classic geographical disputes that we all learn about

in school. I mean, really interesting, intriguing ones that we maybe haven't heard of,

even if you are a professional geographer like Chris Mason and I. Right, that's enough geography. Let's get

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