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 ...

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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.

Would a place by any other name smell as sweet? Maybe. But how would you find it on a map? The U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) has spent the past 125 years making sure that’s not an issue ...

From Himmelstadt to Witzwort–Germany boasts a variety of quirky place names. But do you know where these places are located? Our extensive place name quiz will test your geographical knowledge. Have ...

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.

‘Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies’ by Alastair Bonnett Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 253 pp., $25 If ever a book was written for geography nerds ...

Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word "Negro" from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed.

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 ...