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The Swedish National Heritage Board has oversight of the Cultural Environment Act, which includes the section on good place-name practice.
What does The Swedish National Heritage Board do?
This makes the authority an important body when it comes to handling place name issues. The Swedish National Heritage Board´s task is above all to contribute with the cultural-historical perspective on place names, here tradition has a central role.
Together with the Institute for Languages and Folk Memories (ISOF), The Swedish National Heritage Board is the reference body and support for Lantmäteriet´s work with place names in the property register and on the general maps.
The Swedish National Heritage Board also contributes by supplying us with names of cultural-historical remains, documented by various organizations and companies. This in connection with archaeological efforts.
Lantmäteriet and The Swedish National Heritage Board collaborate with naming the country's cultural-historical remains (in swedish, new window).
The Swedish National Heritage Board (in swedish, new window).
The Swedish National Heritage Board, place names (in swedish, new window).