Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

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

A Wisconsin-based geographer writes in a commentary that in the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on ...

However, Trump's order only applies to the U.S. government's official position. Though headquartered in the U.S., ...

What's in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

Snohomish County enhanced its web maps for better navigation, with faster functionality and improved user access to geographic data.