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 ...

Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water ... of America once it was officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System. The name change is now official.

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 ...

Nonetheless, Google announced that it will make the name change to ‘Gulf of America’ for users of Google Maps in the United States once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System.

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 ...

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 ...