A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
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How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.
