A downstate Champaign elected official’s use of an antisemitic symbol on his personal Facebook page has drawn condemnation from his colleagues.

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.

The Gulf of Mexico is now officially the Gulf of America in the U.S. It is far from the first time a landform or town has changed names.

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

A 16th-century map could offer insights into the enigma surrounding the settlers of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Established in 1587 on the island that now shares its name, near the current North ...

The Hunter mural (also called Orion mural because it’s based off of the star formation of the same name) can be found on the map’s southern side (the door to the right when you spawn) on the map ...

Google Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley to Mount Denali following President ...

In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after ...