A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map.

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

Columnist Mark Patinkin ponders new names for Rhode Island and it's cities and towns as the Gulf of Mexico gets renamed.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum joked that if Trump went ahead with the renaming, her country would rename North America ...

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename ...

The Trump administration's Interior Department officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Alaska's ...

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

The Associated Press issued an updated style guidance in response to President Donald Trump's inauguration day executive orders that purported to rename two geographic landmarks, announcing a decision ...

In a statement explaining its decision, the AP said Trump has the authority to change the mountain’s name, but the gulf is a global name ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," a name he ... to redraw the map of the Western Hemisphere. Trump has repeatedly ...