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

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Trump’s territorial assertions, in line with his “America First” worldview, sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world ...

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... was documented—in Tuscany.” For their map of the United States (above), Hargreaves and Levin chose as their ...