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

Many places in the United States are named after countries and foreign cities, despite having no direct connection to them.

The body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has now been formally renamed in the Geographic Names Information ...

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name to the Gulf of America late Sunday, according to The Associated Press. Google Maps and Bing Maps have also renamed the gulf ...

The Gulf of Mexico and Denali mountain are having their names changed by the US government. Here's why that matters to locals ...

The Interior Department on Friday took steps to update the peak’s name in the federal Geographic Names Information System. Since the board’s decisions are binding only for the federal ...

The Geographic Names Information System has updated the Gulf of Mexico's name to Gulf of America. So, Google Maps has applied the new name for users in the US. Yes, Google Maps is renaming the ...

UPDATE 2/11: Google and Apple have officially renamed the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on their respective Maps apps after the Geographic Names Information System updated the name on its ...

The Interior Department on Friday took steps to update the peak’s name in the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Google confirmed Monday that it would update names in Google ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps Tuesday after an order by President Donald Trump was made official by the U.S. Geographic Names ...

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name late Sunday. Microsoft has also made the name change on its Bing maps. The Associated Press, which provides news around the ...