Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum joked that if Trump went ahead with the renaming, her country would rename North America ...

What’s in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers whether it’s called the Gulf of Mexico, as it ...

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

In the U.S., the U.S. Board on Geographic Names determines what places go on government maps. It uses local names ... with 1,680 miles for the United States of America. The five U.S. states ...

At the same time, as the population in the United States rises and people increasingly ... Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Before and after a home burned down in the Smiley ...