What’s in a name? How much does changing the name of a body of water really matter? These are the questions that irked ...

The Gulf of Mexico is no more. At least on Google Maps. Google has now officially changed the name to the Gulf of America. The tech giant says its policy is to change names when they have been ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is taking a step toward formally renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on state maps and ...

The most noteworthy shift in recent months has been the Gulf of Mexico/America controversy, in which Google Maps (and other map apps) changed a long-standing name — the Gulf of Mexico — to the ...