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

President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United ...

M ore than any other country, Donald Trump went after Mexico on his first day in office. He ordered its criminal gangs to be designated as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs), ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday on his first day in office that would propel a change in 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 ...

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

For nearly half a century, there’s been little thought about the name Congress gave to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management ...

The order Trump signed instructs the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System to reflect the ...