which is listed as the island’s official name on the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS ), a federal repository for identifying official place names. State governments are given the ...

Recently, GOP candidate for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy pitched a new name for one of the Great Lakes to Lake Ohio, similar to President Donald Trump's proposal to recognize the Gulf of Mexico ...

How did this happen? Why did this happen? We began our search for clues in the Geographic Names Information System, a mother lode of almost 2.3 million officially designated streams, summits ...

after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made official President Donald Trump's executive order to change the name within the federal government. Google Maps users in Mexico still see ...

Google Maps announced Monday it had updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.

The Geographic Names Information System database changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this week. It came after President Donald Trump's executive order on his ...

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name to the Gulf of America late Sunday, according to The Associated Press. Google Maps and Bing Maps have also renamed the gulf ...

According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the region late Sunday evening, Feb. 9. Microsoft has also made the name change on Bing maps.

The company said it would update Maps in the US after the Geographic Names Information System made the changes. The GNIS, a database of more than 2 million physical and cultural features ...

The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological Survey, provides the names used in Google Maps. Mount Denali in Alaska is also getting a name change.