The Coast Guard recently announced they have renamed its operational districts from a numbered system to a geographic system.

Since launching in the 1970s, the Geographic Names Information System or GNIS has operated as the official U.S. geographic dictionary, providing a standardized reference guide for all national place ...

The McKinley name change was recently entered into the government’s Geographic Names Information System, which lists the official names and locations of geographic features in the United States.

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

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name to the Gulf of America late Sunday, according to The Associated Press.

The change comes weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially change the gulf's name in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System. But it won't affect all users ...

This marked the second time the mountain’s name had changed. Denali is the traditional name used by Alaska Natives. However, as of Tuesday, neither Google Maps nor the Geographic Names Information ...

The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological Survey, provides the names used in Google Maps. Mount Denali in Alaska is also getting a name change.

In a post on X, Google said it would begin changing the name for US users of its maps once it had been officially entered into the US Geographic Names Information System, spurring Mexico's ...

On Monday, the tech giant announced it had followed the lead of the Geographic Names Information System and officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” for users in the U.S.