The board voted to change the name and took its request to the county commissioners. When the county agreed, the request was then sent to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which made it official for Minnesota. Then, the state of Minnesota sent the request to the Board on Geographic Names, which made it official for the entire U.S.

The mountain referred to as Denali by Alaska Natives for centuries was officially named Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015, then changed to Denali in 2015 during President Barack Obama’s second term. Trump vowed during his first term in 2017 to change the name and followed through after he was reelected.

President Donald Trump says he plans to rename North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley

In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump used an executive order on Monday to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali in Alaska. To start, Trump re-named the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” following through on a promise he made during ...

President Donald Trump announced the name change during his inaugural address, along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”.

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he'd

President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Alaska mountain Denali to Mount McKinley. What you need to know.

Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali on its maps for users in the U.S. following President Trump's controversial executive order.

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of Mexico will now be known as the Gulf of America “in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people.”

The company said Monday that it will only make changes when the government updates its official listings for the body of water and the mountain.