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

Google Maps now shows Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico for U.S. residents as Department of Interior officially ...

GNIS stands for Geographic Names Information System. The Department of Interior beat the Feb. 19 deadline by 10 days. Gulf of ...

Apple Maps changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America Tuesday, after Google Maps changed the body of water's name on Monday.

The body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has now been formally renamed in the Geographic Names Information ...

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name to the Gulf of America late Sunday, according to The Associated Press. Google Maps and Bing Maps have also renamed the gulf ...

Apple has followed Google in telling US users it's the Gulf of America when they search for "Gulf of Mexico." ...

Google made the change starting Monday. It followed an updated site listing for the Gulf in the Geographic Names Information System, a government database run by the Interior Department that ...

GNIS stands for Geographic Names Information System. That would require the name change by Feb. 19. "We have a longstanding ...

UPDATE 2/11: Google and Apple have officially renamed the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on their respective Maps apps after the Geographic Names Information System updated the name on its ...

This comes after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System updated the Gulf of America name earlier this month. Microsoft ...

The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological Survey, provides the names used in Google Maps. This change has faced opposition from Mexican officials ...