Locations or areas are not always uniquely named. Often, different names refelct ongoing political or cultural disagreements and names are used to imply affiliations. To show this adequately is challenging. You can learn, why the Swiss World Atlas will keep “Gulf of Mexico”, why Tibet is shown as a part of China or why the water body between Japan and the Corean Peninsula has two names under the following two links:
ETH-Zukunftsblog 17.03.2025
Tagesanzeiger 22.03.2025 (in German)
