In most cases, such name changes are reviewed by a Department of Interior panel known as the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

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Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said ...

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

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The cold air will be somewhat limited, but enough arctic air will wrap around the system that a snowstorm could break out in ...

It's official. Sort of. Google Maps posted on X it would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System. The same day he ...

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center began using "Gulf of America" in its public forecasts, though the "Gulf of Mexico" still appears in some places on the weather service's website.