Gulf of Mexico south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, according to the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. US Gulf of Mexico Protraction areas Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico () is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida border the Gulf on the north, which are often referred to as
State of Mexico the west of Mexico City and a panhandle that extends around the north and east of this entity. The state name is simply "México" according to the 1917 Constitution of the United Mexican States, but to distinguish it from both the city and the country it is most often called "Estado de México". The demonym used to refer to people and things from the state is "mexiquense", distinct from "mexicano" ("Mexican"), which describes the people or things from the country as a whole. "Mēxihco" was originally the Nahuatl name for the Valley of Mexico where the cities of the Mexica