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 – ...

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Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after ...

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The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America, the Interior Department announced Friday, while the name of North America’s highest peak, Alaska’s Denali, has been changed back to Mount ...

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

Alaskans say they will never stop calling the peak Denali despite President Trump’s executive order that the name revert to ...

The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska's Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as ...

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename ...

US President Donald Trump ordered the name changes as part of a flurry of executive actions hours after taking office on Monday, making good on a campaign promise ...