After announcing it would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Google has officially changed on its Maps ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names will play a role ... exciting profile of the United States that is unmatched in any other medium,” the board states. In the case of Mount McKinley, original ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

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 ...

"It is in these ways and many others that geographic naming gives us a clear, exciting profile of the United States that is unmatched in any other medium,” the board states. In the case of Mount ...

The move to officially change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America has already seen support in Oklahoma.

Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see ... legacy of its heroes and historic assets. "The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, under the purview of the Department of the Interior ...