And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

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

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” instructing the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), a federal body ...

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Shortly after Trump’s executive order to rename the body of water, the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) made the change official, prompting Google Maps to follow suit for U.S. users.

Shortly after Trump’s executive order to rename the body of water, the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) made the change official, prompting Google Maps to follow suit for U.S. users.

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While the US government can change the name of US geographical features in official domestic documents, and other countries could change their terminology, there is no obligation for the latter to ...

The companies say they follow the naming conventions from the US Geographic Names Information System. In tweets, the decades-old MapQuest joked that it had lost the ability to update itself when ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused Google on Monday of violating the country’s sovereignty, leaving open the possibility of a lawsuit over the tech company labeling the Gulf of Mexico ...