The Gulf of Mexico and Denali mountain are having their names changed by the US government. Here's why that matters to locals ...

He jumpstarted the effort by ordering the name ... that geographic naming gives us a clear, exciting profile of the United States that is unmatched in any other medium,” the board states.

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United ... Board on Geographic Names. Current committee policy ...

The move follows President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the body of water and the federal Board ... The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological ...