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

An area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful ...

To understand the origins of the names of Mexico’s states is to understand the country's complex history and diverse culture.

Despite this, Google Maps and Apple Maps have not yet been updated to reflect these new names — and realistically might not ...

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 ...

While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

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

President Donald Trump issued an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

including what are today roughly the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Changes created under the "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness" executive order ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United ...