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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mexico threatened to sue the tech giant over the decision to update its maps system to reflect President Trump’s order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America.” Mexico ...

Sarasota, United States - January 28, 2025 In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.” People using Maps in ...

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 ...

which was made official by the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Apple Maps followed in on the footsteps of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, which also renamed Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.