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

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following an executive ...

Among the blizzard of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back in the Oval Office was one titled ...

A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map.

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Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters and tried to overturn birthright citizenship in an aggressive first week that included ...

The Jacuzzi of Death, located 3,000ft below the Gulf of Mexico, is a circle around 100-foot wide and has very dense, very toxic waters containing methane and hydrogen sulphide ...

This incoming storm is tied to the remnants of the same system that is bringing beneficial, yet threatening, widespread rain ...

After Trump ‘renamed’ the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America to “restore names that honour American greatness” it seems ...

Backed by loyalists and tech billionaires, Donald Trump swept into office with a blizzard of executive orders to reshape ...

Donald Trump ’s billionaire ally Elon Musk proposed renaming the English Channel to the ‘George Washington Canal’ after ...