Naming geographical places, such as mountains and lakes, became formalized in 1897 with the creation of the Geographic Board of Canada — now called the the Geographical Names Board of Canada. ...

The U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a racist and misogynistic slur for a Native American woman.. Hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams, and other geographical ...

The state law banning use of the term empowers an advisory committee, in communication with local tribes and officials, to remove the slur from towns and geographic place names by Jan. 1, 2025.

Prepare to have your mind blown by the most jaw-dropping, bizarre, and out-of-this-world geography facts that will completely change the way you view our planet. From hidden continents to lakes that ...

Kenya, Kyoto, and Paris, West Virginia, Alaska, and Niagara Falls all landed on National Geographic's list of best places to travel to in 2024. But this year there's a fun new twist.

THE vexed problem of geographical place names is raised again in an article in the Geographical Journal for October in which the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names of the Royal Geographical ...

Defiance County’s Hicksville is a long way from the setting for Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” but its name appears in the American classic in Chapter 33. John Grindrod/The Lima News While it ...

A federal board has the power to rename geographic places within the United States, and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene immediately promised to introduce a law to execute the plan.

Particular places and our experiences in and with them inform and give shape to our intellectual musings, interests, projects, and compositions. This lecture highlights the affective agency of the ...

Geographical place names in B.C. honour colonizers, but Indigenous names returning. Jackie McKay | CBC News | Posted: December 30, 2023 9:00 AM | Last Updated ...