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The post-Y2K rebranding: The countries that changed their names in the 21st century

Look at a world map, and all those bold borders and country names seem permanent. They aren’t. The geography we memorized in ...
Condé Nast Traveler

How Names on Maps Get Changed—and Who Gets to Decide

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” instructing the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), a federal body ...
Marketplace

The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries

Geography has been part of President Trump’s agenda. His first day on the job, he signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest peak ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...