People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

Welcome back to the Money blog. We've kicked off the week by exploring what it's like to be a teacher - and it's not all lovely long holidays. Elsewhere, a quarter of employers say they're planning to ...

Geographical name changes can be a result of a shift in regimes, indigenous movements, decolonisation, or political factors.

Here’s the connection between our roads and the men for whom they’re named and why we we ended up with so many.

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first ...

The United States dropped millions of tonnes of bombs on Cambodia. Now efforts to get rid of them have been thrown into ...

How does this technology work, and what exactly are you trying to illustrate or discover with these maps? HAGAN: We are using light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, to try to find the old-growth ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, a move that could take ...