convened a meeting of the Metropolitan Geographical Names Committee (MGNC) at the New Council Chambers in City Hall in East London last week. The purpose of the meeting was to advise the Metro Council ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico has left residents along the Gulf Coast sharply divided. Some say it awakens their pride in the U.S. while others suggest it ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico has left residents along the Gulf Coast sharply divided. Some say it awakens their pride in the U.S. while others suggest it ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week attributing inclement winter weather to a “low pressure moving across the ...

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is an obscure government department that decides what the country calls geographic features. The board's Foreign Names Committee standardizes the names of high ...

Johnny McDonald, who was visiting Florida from his home in Tennessee, sits on a park bench facing the open Gulf on Jan. 14 in Cedar Key, Fla. He doesn't think the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed.

The U.S. Board on Geographic ... place names beyond U.S. borders. The members are appointed for two-year terms by the respective heads of the agencies they represent. The committee that deals ...

THE United States Geographic Board has published a “First Report on Foreign Geographical ... from that used by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use.

The committee that deals with names on U.S. soil meets monthly. The board is quite aware of the importance of a name, noting in its guiding principles, policies and procedures that the names of ...

The U.S. Board on Geographic ... place names beyond U.S. borders. The members are appointed for two-year terms by the respective heads of the agencies they represent. The committee that deals ...