Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It lies between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York. For centuries, it has been known in English as Lake Ontario. In August 2026, however, the United States government gave it a second name: Lake America.

On August 27, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing US federal agencies to use the name Lake America. The order took effect immediately within the US federal government, and the new name was added to the US Geographic Names Information System.

The change was made during a period of worsening relations between the United States and Canada. Trump presented it as recognition of the United States’ role in protecting and developing the Great Lakes. The executive order mentions American investments, shipping, icebreaking and the fact that the deepest parts of the lake are on the US side.

Canada does not accept the new name. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the government of Ontario have said that the lake will continue to be called Lake Ontario in Canada. The United States cannot officially rename the entire lake because it is shared by two countries. The executive order only determines which name is used by the US federal government.

This means that both names may now appear on maps. Google Maps shows Lake America to users in the United States, Lake Ontario to users in Canada, and both names to many users elsewhere. Other map services may make different choices. As a result, two people looking at the same lake online may see different names depending on where they are located.

The name Ontario is much older than either the United States or Canada. It comes from an Indigenous language and is generally interpreted as meaning “sparkling water” or “great body of water.” The lake gave its name to the Canadian province of Ontario when Canada was formed in 1867.

This is not the first time the Trump administration has changed the American name of a major geographical feature. In 2025, it renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America for official US use and restored the name Mount McKinley for the mountain also widely known as Denali.

For geography students, Lake Ontario remains the internationally familiar name. Lake America is now its official name within the US federal government. Which name appears on a particular map depends on the country, the map publisher and the naming rules it follows.

You can easily create custom map quizzes that include only a subset of the questions from an existing quiz. A custom quiz can also be configured to start in a specific game mode. Just follow the instructions below:

1. Select the game mode “Custom” from the game mode list below the map.
2. Click all the areas you want to include in the new quiz.
3. Click the “Create Link” button, and a dialog box will appear:

The generated link is shareable, so you can send it to your friends or students, and they will get the exact same map quiz.

You don’t need to log in to create a custom quiz—and it’s completely free!

You can now create super quizzes in our flag and language games by combining questions from multiple pages using the load= parameter in the URL.

How it works:
Add ?load= followed by quiz IDs (separated by commas) to combine them with your current quiz.

Examples:
https://ekvis.com/en/esani02/?load=esani01 – Combines esani02 + esani01
https://ekvis.com/en/esani02/?load=esani01,esbod01 – Combines esani02 + esani01 + esbod01

You can now bookmark the new page or send the url to other players.

The id to use in the load= string comes from the url of the pages. In the url: https://ekvis.com/en/esani02/ the id is the part after en/, so esani02. If you want to add those questions to another quiz, go to the other quiz and add ?load=esani02 to that url

If you want to combine more than two quizzes, use , between the id and no spaces in the list ?load=esani01,esani02

To get a random sample, add all quizzes you want to select from with the load parameter, then limit the length of the quiz with the parameter max by adding &max=(number of questions in the new quiz)

Note that after the last id in the load section, there needs to be an & (ampersand) character before the max=10 or what length you prefer on the new quiz. Example: https://ekvis.com/en/esani02/?load=esani01,esbod01&max=8

Iran’s current national flag, adopted in 1980 after the Islamic Revolution, features a green-white-red tricolor with a stylized “Allah” emblem and “Allahu Akbar” repeated 22 times. It replaced the historic Lion and Sun flag used under the Pahlavi monarchy.

Since late 2025, massive protests have revived the Lion and Sun symbol as a powerful sign of opposition. Demonstrators have burned or torn down the official flag, raised the pre-1979 version in cities across Iran, and replaced it at embassies abroad (e.g., London in January 2026). Diaspora rallies worldwide show the same emblem, often alongside calls for regime change.

In a notable digital gesture, X (formerly Twitter) updated its Iran flag emoji to a modern Lion and Sun design in January 2026, amplifying the symbol globally—even on Iranian state-linked accounts.

As of March 2, 2026, no official change is happening. The regime, despite Supreme Leader Khamenei’s death on February 28, 2026, in U.S.-Israeli strikes, still flies its flag and views the Lion and Sun as a direct threat to its identity.

A formal redesign would require regime collapse or major reform, which is possible amid the ongoing unrest, but uncertain. Opposition groups disagree: some want the Lion and Sun restored, others a completely new design.

For now, two flags coexist: the official one on government buildings, and the Lion and Sun in protesters’ hands and on screens worldwide. The real change has already begun symbolically. The official one depends on Iran’s political future.

Equatorial Guinea is a small country in Central Africa. For many years, its capital city has been Malabo, which is located on an island called Bioko. However, the government has decided to move the capital to a new city on the mainland.

The new capital is called Ciudad de la Paz. It was previously known as Oyala. This city is located in the mainland part of the country, known as Río Muni. The new capital was announced in Januari 2026.

One reason for the move is geography. Most of Equatorial Guinea’s land area and population are on the mainland, not on the island where Malabo is located. By moving the capital, the government says it will be easier to manage the country and connect different regions.

Ciudad de la Paz is a planned city. This means it was designed in advance, with wide roads, government buildings, and space for future development. Many important government institutions have already started moving there, but Malabo is still used for some official purposes.

The change of capital is a gradual process. It takes many years to move ministries, offices, and workers. Because of this, some people still think of Malabo as the capital, even though the government has officially named Ciudad de la Paz as the new one.

“Ciudad de la Paz” means “the City of Peace” in Spanish. Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa.