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

The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent ...

The U.S. Board ... north by the United States' southern coast, from Texas to Florida. It also wraps around Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Employees at the U.S. Board on Geographic Names have since ...

As part of that effort, the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), under the purview of the DOI, “is working expeditiously to update the official federal nomenclature in the Geographic Names ...

"This is America dropping its pants and showing its empire tattoos,” San Diego State professor William Nericcio tells Gustavo ...

The U.S. Board on Geographic ... to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps. That's the body of water bordered to the north by the United States' southern ...

Google Maps changed the body of water's name ... Board on Geographic Names. Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that Trump's order only applies to the part of continental shelf ...

Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that the body of water should be ...

The U.S. Geological Survey followed suit the next day, posting a message Feb. 14 on its website that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names was ... body of water. The United States and Mexico almost ...