It’s even weirder because America doesn’t mean just the United States

Hey since America is the center of the earth, we should change it to the Gulf of Central America!

Really, we could just call it the Gulf of the Americas. That would be perfectly correct in every way.

…but it’s not in any way contiguous with south america; that would be the caribbean sea…

Hmmm, good point. The Caribbean Sea will now be known as the Sea of the Americas, lol. Idk, I was trying to unite everyone.