If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

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U.S. Google Maps results for "Gulf of Mexico," automatically changed to "Gulf of America" and showing the location's label as "Gulf of America." Credit: Mashable screenshot / Google Late last month, ...

Right now, if you’re looking at Google Maps from Europe, the name of the body of water bound to the east by Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the west by Texas and Mexico, is listed as ...

Apple's macOS Maps app showing the Gulf of Mexico labelled as such, with a popup calling it the Gulf of America. Credit: Mashable screenshot: Apple Apple Maps has quietly been updated to change the ...

State-by-state breakdown shows most politically split areas in the country – and where campaigners could therefore target.

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. America has had two great ages of exploration. The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas ...

Peter Bellerby, the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, holds a globe at a studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. But Trump's territorial assertions, in line with his “America First” worldview, ...

The former Gulf of Mexico has officially been designated as the Gulf of America. Sort of. Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water west of Florida as the Gulf of ...