Governments frequently disagree over the names of places. Here’s how mapping apps have dealt with various feuds.

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

Google has found itself back in the crosshairs of a geopolitical battle over President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico ...

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is an effort to rework the historical narrative about that geographic area. In good English that ...

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

With the Trump Administration declaring that the Gulf of Mexico shall be renamed to the Gulf of America, two iconic GPS services, Apple & Google Maps, have changed it.

As of Thursday, how the Gulf appeared on Google Maps was dependent on the user's location and other data. If the user is in the United States, the body of water appeared as Gulf of America.

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(Bloomberg) -- Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened a civil lawsuit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps service following an executive order Donald ...