Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order demanding the body of water that runs along the United State’s ...

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of ...

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the ...

Since his first run for the White House in 2016, Trump has repeatedly clashed with Mexico over a number of issues, including ...

President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba.

Among the first executive orders signed by President Donald Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly ...

Claudia Sheinbaum's statement comes after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially rename the body ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map.