There’s no agreed-upon scheme to name boundaries and features shared by countries. And map lines are inherently political.

President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

The resolution calls for state agencies to update official state maps, documents, educational materials, and any other ...

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of ...

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it ...

In the past few years, there's been a push to rename the town, but voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure to change the name to Konoctie, a local volcano in the area. Despite this, a county board ...

Federal changes have to be made, but other countries and private companies can keep using "Gulf of Mexico." Here's why.

The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” citing its integral ...

On the day that Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, he signed a flurry of executive orders, ...