He jumpstarted the effort by ordering the name ... that geographic naming gives us a clear, exciting profile of the United States that is unmatched in any other medium,” the board states.

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United ... Board on Geographic Names. Current committee policy ...

The change reflects Google's policy of adhering to official government names for geographical locations. Users outside the United States will ... and the federal Board on Geographic Names formally ...