Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

So it’s easier for North Americans to think of Europe as due east and South America as due south. Locations aren’t the only way our mental maps can be wrong; we also have misconceptions about ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month jokingly suggested North America, including the United States, be renamed "Mexican America" - a historic name used on an early map of the region.

Earlier this month, Mexico's Sheinbaum joked that because a world map from 1607 — 169 years before the US was founded — labeled North America as ... but that's only binding to federal ...

Google also said Denali, a mountain in southern Alaska and North America's tallest peak, is going to be called Mount McKinley on its maps for those same users, reflecting the presidential mandate.

Google Maps users in the U.S. now only see the Gulf of America name ... the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America’s highest peak will once again ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States ... of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America with the Gulf's eastern, northern ...

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America ... in addition to changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America. That peak, which had been known by the ...