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

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Doug Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, as President Donald Trump ...

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the ...

The search and advertising giant said it would change its Google Maps names to Mount McKinley and Gulf of America once ...

Ms. Sheinbaum showed a world map from 1607 that labeled North America as Mexican America and identified the Gulf of Mexico as such — 169 years before the United States was founded.

Google said Monday its maps will use names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico favored by President ... s nominee for interior secretary, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who answered questions ...

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 simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System ...

That applies here too." The Gulf of Mexico has been so named at least since the late 1600s, when it was used to describe the body of water that's bordered to the north by the United States ...

The executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico was one of several signed by Trump on his first day back in office. Other measures included renaming Denali, North America's tallest peak ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America, the Interior Department announced Friday, while the name of North America's highest peak, Alaska's Denali, has been changed back to ...

"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America’s highest peak will once again bear the name Mount McKinley. "These ...