The system's new description for the Gulf, an ocean basin that shares nearly equal lengths of shoreline with the U.S. and ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S.

The Fourth of July celebrates American independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. During that time, the US was divided into 13 distinct colonies, which later grew and expanded ...

A country cold, desolate and hideous ... Malcolm Lewis, expert on maps and North American native cultures, explains: "It was almost certainly used in the process of negotiating with the Piankashaw ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Although we are now smart enough to know that the sea horizon is not the edge of the world, it is difficult to name exactly which countries lie beyond. This ...

The Gulf of Mexico, a 218,000-square-mile oceanic basin, has been named as such for at least 400 years by European explorers ...