Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it ...

I have always loved maps. My favorite books as a child featured maps. My first forays into backpacking introduced me to ...

while Arab countries typically refer to it as the Arabian Gulf. And in 2014 after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Google Maps in Russia showed Crimea as part of Russian territory, but in Ukraine ...

Google has found itself back in the crosshairs of a geopolitical battle over President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, raising fresh questions over the role technology ...

Governments frequently disagree over the names of places. Here’s how mapping apps have dealt with various feuds.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have warned shippers that “any Israeli vessel” traveling through nearby Mideast waters is now a target ...

A map featuring the words "Gulf of America ... although usage of “Gulf” and “Arabian Gulf” is dominant in many countries in the Middle East. The government of Iran threatened to sue ...