Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...

labelling the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." As such, Google Maps has followed suit. Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for ...

Google will soon update its maps to say the "Gulf of America" instead of the "Gulf of Mexico" in the U.S. But that won't be the case for users all over the world. In a series of social media ...

MEXICO CITY — At her daily news conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday displayed a colonial-era map of North America — with much of what later became the United States ...