Place names are important for society, both historically and culturally, as well as for practical purposes. They are used by emergency services (112), journey planners (Rejseplanen), municipalities, environmental authorities, and many more, and are essential for map production.
The Danish Place Names Register comprises the geographical names of everything from individual trees like “Kongeegen” (The King’s Oak), towns like Centrum and islands like Funen. This totals approximately 140,000 Danish place names, all registered with a geographical location – which may be a point, a line, or an area defining the name’s geographic extent.
You can search for all place names on The Danish Agency for Climate Data’s map viewer, and you can also add the Danish Place Names Register as a layer in the map.
Access to Place Name Data
The Danish Place Names Register is part of the open basic data, freely available for anyone to use via web services. You can access the data on The Danish Data Distribution Platform.