Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

While the Navy began phasing out its numbered system in the late 1980s, ending it completely by 1999 with only the Naval District Washington remaining, the Coast Guard retained its numerical system.

Riyadh, May 06, 2025, SPA -- Executive Director for Geographical Names at the General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GEOSA) and Secretary-General of the National Committee on ...

The federal government's Board on Geographic Names requires every federal agency to use a database called the Geographic Names Information System, which includes over a million named locations in ...

FinCEN’s Geographic Targeting Order Increases Reporting Obligations for Money Services Businesses Located Near the United States–Mexico Border ...

The Geographic Names Information System, which is part of the United States Geological Survey, supplies the designated names used in Google Maps.

The change is in the process of being officially enforced within the United States. The US Board on Geographic Names, which is responsible for approving official geographic names, has been directed to ...

The Geographic Names Information System database changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this week.

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.

There is a consultive body within the United Nations called the Group of Experts on Geographical Names that encourages international coordination and standardization of cartographic names.

Google Maps users around the world will see different names for the Gulf that shares near-equal lengths of shoreline with the United States and Mexico when they access the application.