President Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the country’s highest mountain from Denali to Mount McKinley.

It took 40 years to rename Denali from the name established in the late 19th century, Mount McKinley. The state of Alaska ...

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

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

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

The park that contains the mountain is still called Denali National ... with the names of geographic features—to be updated within 30 days to reflect the name changes. Alaska’s two senators ...

Centuries ago ... change to Denali. Yet the effort failed in Congress due to the opposition of legislators from Ohio, chiefly GOP representative Ralph Regula. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names ...

Groups living to the south of the Alaska ... Board on Geographic Names, but met resistance from Ohio’s congressional delegation. In 1980, the park’s name was changed to Denali National Park ...

FILE – A tour bus kicks up dust during a sunny day at Denali National Park in Alaska as Denali appears ... The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the nation’s geographic naming authority ...

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, the department said its U ...