The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

A committee created to increase Indigenous place names needs to get back to its original purpose, according to one Winnipeg ...

In fact, they often shorten it themselves—with 168 letters, it’s the longest place name in the world. Ready? It is this: ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

The most visible change to Apple Maps comes at a wide view of the nation which shows in a plum colour various areas large and ...

What’s in a name? Well, it often depends on who you’re asking — and what language you’re speaking — especially in a place like Scotland, which has been home to numerous cultures. We get a “Postcard ...

What’s in a name? A lot more than you might think. The study of place names is known as toponymy, and it can tell us a lot about who held power in an area and the amount of influence they had ...

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Fathers give an ancestral name picked from the family tree. This is soft power. For place names, however, it is mostly raw power, and journalists who are communicators of the world are often ...

This is a project to document in one place all the Indigenous place names known for Colorado. Eventually, we plan to have a scroll-over map, and ideally sound recordings of each name. Prior to that, ...