While the Navy began phasing out its numbered system in the late 1980s, ending it completely by 1999 with only the Naval District Washington remaining, the Coast Guard retained its numerical system.

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has scored Anambra high in terms of Infrastructural development and ease of doing business as regards digitalisation of economy by way of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard renamed its operational districts from numerical to geographic designations, a key initiative under Force ...

The resolution states, “Quarantine Island later became known by its present name, Sand Island, which is listed as the island’s official name on the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS ...

The federal government's Board on Geographic Names requires every federal agency to use a database called the Geographic Names Information System, which includes over a million named locations in ...

Google Maps users in the U.S. began seeing the name Gulf of America last week, after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made official President Donald Trump's executive order to change ...

Google Maps announced Monday it had updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.

The Geographic Names Information System database changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this week.

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System officially updated the name to the Gulf of America late Sunday, according to The Associated Press.

The change comes weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially change the gulf's name in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System. But it won't affect all users ...