Canada's tallest mountain and the U.S.' tallest mountain are less than 650km apart. What mountains are they?

Pamela Roland , Why don't you drop your bigotry and try rational thought? Maybe you wouldn't sound so foolish. The name of the mountain was Denali long before white folks came along and gave it a white man's name. President Obama merely restored its original name. Opening a book now and then might help in disabusing yourself of narrow-minded thinking.

Denali is just that, meaning "The Great One." There is no word in front of it. The traditional white person's name for it, Mount McKinley, was changed in 2016, after a 40+ year battle of Alaskans asking the federal government to change it to the traditional Native name.

David Storer, Didn't you read the first paragraph? Mt. McKinley was the white man's name for Denali, its original name, which was restored by President Obama.

purvisfamily, President Obama did not "change the name"; he RESTORED the name, correcting an arrogance of white men who CHANGED the name from Denali. Perhaps if you cracked a book now and then, you might be able to disabuse yourself of narrow-minded thinking and bigotry. Give it a try.

Eric Harer, No, it is Denali and was long before being called Mt. McKinley. By the way, how's that bigotry and narrow-mindedness working for you?

Denali gave it away. Got it.

David Storer, Denali is McKinley

Jim Adams, Bombay is now Mumbai, Siam is now Thailand, etc, etc, etc, Change with the times or forever be angry that things haven't stayed the same as you remember them when you were a child.

(Yes. You're absolutely right. We'd have to change the entire freaking map. That much? You obviously do understand. You don't like it? Too fckng bad.)

There's not an inch of the planet that wasn't called something else by previous people in history. However, the current name is usually a reflection of who won the last war. People don't like change, so when you've known one thing your whole life and then it's different it's human nature not to like it. Doesn't make you racist. People dont dislike that Pluto is no longer a planet because they hate the people there. The change just doesn't sit well with our inherent psychology. The state of Minnesota is a Dakota name (which is very racist against the Anishinabe Ojibwe by the way lol). There's lakes like Minnetonka that retained their Dakota name in English. Lake Superior is often referred to as Gitchi Gummi, its Ojibwe name (though not officially). Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis was recently renamed it's Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska. But unlike the previous examples, the English name was Lake Calhoun first. And I absolutely hate it. I don't even know how to say it. The Dakota are sparse in Minneapolis, and speak English anyway. It's political. And it's dumb. Don't people realize it's not just a few places here and there, and we would literally have to change the entire map? I don't even know what it's attempting. To show we're sorry for taking Natives land before we were even born? To prove we're not hateful like our recent ancestors? To try to erase history because it gives our feelings booboos? To show that we're better than our ancestors? Why would we need to prove that if we're not guilty of anything? I see liberals quick to jump down other's throats when they disagree with the renaming by calling them racist, narrow-minded, or xenophobic. But can anyone answer what the actual freakin point is? Thanks.

Suzanne Wilson, those are so annoying!

weathernco, no longer.

silrem, no, that's the Nile.

Niko Hilje, no, now it has its original name, Denali.

Diane Lynn Kinsman, so did the people of Alaska.

not your call

Jim Adams, Obama didn't change or restore the name, but restored the original, Native American, name of the mountain. President Obama didn't need your permission.

For more than 65 years I’ve known it as Mt McKinley. Who the heck gave Obama the right to rename it! Sure the eff wasn’t me.

I did not know about the change.

Hate names changed. X

Corey Taylor, you must also believe that the earth is flat.

No idea.