The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

Google Maps addressed what would happen to those landmarks on their systems. "We have a longstanding practice of applying ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of ...

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

The company also said it will start using the name Mount McKinley to refer to the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali ... Daily Crossword Puzzle. "For geographic features in the U.S ...

But these are not the only global naming disputes in recent history. For over a quarter century, the Balkans were at odds ...

North America's highest mountain peak will still loom above Alaska whether it's called Denali, as ordered ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers in ...

North America’s highest mountain peak will still loom above Alaska whether it’s called Denali, as ordered ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers ...

Denali reflected on Wonder Lake in Denali National Park in Alaska.Credit: iStockphoto News agency the Associated Press said it would refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name, which it has ...

The name will be tweaked when the Geographic Names Information ... the nation's highest peak, from Denali. Former President Barack Obama renamed the Alaska landmark to Denali in 2015 as a nod ...