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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...