And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of ...

Louisiana is one of the first states to formally update social studies standards to reflect the renaming of the Gulf of ...

Google Maps announced Monday it had updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.

According to LDOE, the Freedom Framework for social studies standards references the Gulf in two areas -- fourth and fifth grade. These changes will be enacted in the 2025-2026 school year and schools ...

Google no longer lets users leave reviews for the Gulf of America after the company updated its maps to comply with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System. The Gulf of ...

Mexico threatened to sue the tech giant over the decision to update its maps system to reflect President Trump’s order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America.” Mexico ...

We began our search for clues in the Geographic Names Information System, a mother lode of almost 2.3 million officially designated streams, summits, seas and cemeteries. We used a lengthier list ...

after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made official President Donald Trump's executive order to change the name within the federal government. Google Maps users in Mexico still see ...

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo urged Google on Thursday to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for U.S. users of Google Maps, threatening to file a ...

While the US government can change the name of US geographical features in official domestic documents, and other countries could change their terminology, there is no obligation for the latter to ...

The companies say they follow the naming conventions from the US Geographic Names Information System. In tweets, the decades-old MapQuest joked that it had lost the ability to update itself when ...