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

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

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

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

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. 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 will show Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America" and Alaska's Denali as "Mount McKinley" in the United States once the ...

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

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