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 – ...

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

Luis de la Calle Because the budget deficit is much larger and because we have made Mexico less competitive. And the risk ...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to replace the name “Gulf of Mexico” with “Gulf of America” in state documents and ...

Landry's order directs state agencies, boards and officers to make the change to all published materials moving forward.

Undoubtedly, you will say Miraldi is getting carried away. But hold your horses; the Trump administration is just beginning.

It was 1993, and Bunker was looking for the Gulf of Mexico. Really he was just looking for the water. Bunker, a Seattle kid turned Iowa Hawkeye, had come to Florida’s Panhandle during winter break for ...

Louisiana’s state board of education voted unanimously Tuesday to align the state’s fourth and fifth-grade social studies ...

LOS ANGELES — The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an ...

Sign the petition telling Google to uphold international norms, and maintain the Gulf of Mexico’s name on all versions of ...

Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it ...