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

The Department of the Interior (DoI) said the Gulf of Mexico is now to be known as the "Gulf of America" following an ...

The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska's Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as ...

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

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

Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.

The mountain referred to as Denali by Alaska Natives for centuries was officially named Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015, ...

A Wisconsin-based geographer writes in a commentary that in the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on ...

The federal government is formally implementing President Trump’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali. The ...