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 ...

19th-century map showing the immense territory that previously belonged to Mexico, including what are today roughly the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Changes ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” exemplifies a focus on symbolic gestures rather than addressing significant global challenges.

used "Gulf of Mexico" on his map "View of Entire Route of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage." A 1630 map called the body of water "Gulf of New Spain." The Spanish name evolved into Seno Mexicano.

The map also dubs North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America. Mexico’s first female president joked that Mexican America has a nice ring to it as a new name for the U.S. Those 16th ...

Google announced Monday that it will add the new name to Google Maps as soon as it's acknowledged ... He recognizes that the name Gulf of Mexico first appeared on a world map around 1550, that it's ...

President-elect Trump is set to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali as part ... a spokesperson for the Trump-Vance transition team, shared a New York Post report on Trump’s plans to ...

Trump said during his inaugural address Monday that he would order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and ... to adopt the new name. It's his latest suggestion to redraw the map of the Western ...

Amid the head-spinning flurry of "Day 1" executive orders that stretched presidential power to new (and ... displayed a map made in 1607 that not only included the "Gulf of Mexico" label.

Indeed, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo promptly suggested the US might itself be renamed Mexican America. She was referring to a 17th-century map showing ... a new edition of an ...

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the president of Mexico, at a press conference Jan. 8 pointed to the United States on a centuries-old map and quipped ... suggestion takes on new life Leavitt's tweet ...

The president of Mexico later fired back that the area of the map, including the United States ... and drive U.S. industrialization and global reach to new heights. He was tragically ...