Many places in the United States are named after countries and foreign cities, despite having no direct connection to them.

Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of ...

While the US government can change the name of US geographical features in official domestic documents, and other countries could change their terminology, there is no obligation for the latter to ...

The companies say they follow the naming conventions from the US Geographic Names Information System. In tweets, the decades-old MapQuest joked that it had lost the ability to update itself when ...

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo urged Google on Thursday to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for U.S. users of Google Maps, threatening to file a ...

after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made official President Donald Trump's executive order to change the name within the federal government. Google Maps users in Mexico still see ...