States are part of countries, and countries may be grouped by other areas, like continents, hemispheres, or a political or economic body. The US is also commonly referred to in three distinct ways: as ...

These 20 maps offer an overview of the economy ... Who is the richest person in every state? The United States is home to nine out of the top 10 richest people in the world, according to the ...

Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water west of Florida ... of Mexico to Gulf of America once it was officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System. The ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... was documented—in Tuscany.” For their map of the United States (above), Hargreaves and Levin chose as their ...

The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers in the U.S., said this week that the company ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with ... site listing for the Gulf in the Geographic Names Information System, a government ...

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 ...