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Danish Place Names

There are some 25,000 authorised place names in Denmark. These are registered and managed by a Place Names Committee whose secretariat is located within the Department for Name Research at the University of Copenhagen. Among its responsibilities, this committee distributes information about the official spelling of Danish place names.

Learn more about Danish place names at University of Copenhagen's website.

Learn more about the Place Names Committee (in Danish).

In its mapping activities, the Danish Geodata Agency requires accurate information about the place names on its maps. To this end, we have developed a Place Name and Information Register (SNSOR) that is linked to our topographic data collections. More than 120,000 place names are included in the register, in addition to approximately 25,000 information tags. These describe locations such as camp grounds, museums and schools in greater detail.