The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

Google Maps addressed what would happen to those landmarks on their systems. "We have a longstanding practice of applying ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of ...

The company also said it will start using the name Mount McKinley to refer to the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali ... Daily Crossword Puzzle. "For geographic features in the U.S ...

But these are not the only global naming disputes in recent history. For over a quarter century, the Balkans were at odds ...

27 (UPI) --Google will show Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America" and Alaska's Denali as "Mount McKinley" in the United States once the U.S. government has officially updated to the U.S. Geographic ...

Denali reflected on Wonder Lake in Denali National Park in Alaska.Credit: iStockphoto News agency the Associated Press said it would refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name, which it has ...

The name will be tweaked when the Geographic Names Information ... the nation's highest peak, from Denali. Former President Barack Obama renamed the Alaska landmark to Denali in 2015 as a nod ...

He also called on the U.S. Interior Department to work with Alaska ... Geographic Names Information System. Since the board’s decisions are binding only for the federal government, it's possible ...

Trump's order said the new names would need to be reflected in the federal Geographic ... meaning Denali and the Gulf of Mexico may remain their names outside of the United States. Alaska's ...