One of the first things President Trump did after taking office was announce plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

The names of geographic locations are arbitrary — chosen and abandoned by humans, changing as power and culture shift.

Step aside "Gulf of America," this famous mountain peak, the tallest in North America, may also revert to its former name - ...

Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” And in the case of Denali, would a ...

But Mexico argues the U.S. cannot legally change the Gulf's name because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory only extends up ...

The US Department has said the process of implementing the new names is in continuation - but the official maps of the locations by the government are not done yet.

Recently, the new U.S. Administration announced some notable geographic name changes. Maps may soon display the “Gulf of ...

Google says it will display the names "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley" to the US users of its Google Maps service if ...

Google has reclassified the United States as a “sensitive country”. This change in naming led to the speculation that it is ...

President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali, the tallest peak in the country, ...