The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

It was 1993, and Bunker was looking for the Gulf of Mexico. Really he was just looking for the water. Bunker, a Seattle kid ...

You know, Mapquest, one of the first map sites that we all used long ago to get directions online, long before the days of Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Apple Maps. Well it turns out that Mapquest is ...

Google, Apple and Bing Maps have changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America following an executive order from President Trump. MapQuest has not yet updated its map to reflect Trump's order.

The BriefFlorida lawmakers advanced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, aligning with a Trump-era ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

After President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, there's been a simmering controversy. Mexico is threatening to sue Google for going with Gulf of ...

President Trump’s order changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America prompted ... In southernmost Louisiana, where the land on the map looks like grains of rice and okra in a bowl of ...

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Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it the East Sea. In 2024, Netflix acknowledged that it had “mislabeled” the ...

I use ‘180 Days of Geography’ in my morning work packets, and this past week was about tornado alley, and on the map, it was labeled ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ No one blinked or said anything about ...