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How to find out to which polygon each points belongs to?

I have searched for an answer to this, but couldn't find anything useful. I have got a shapefile consisting of a number of polygons, and another shapefile with a number of points.
I want to add a column in the points shapefile. For each point, I want the column to contain the name of the polygon that surrounds it.
In simple terms, I just want to find out to which polygon each points belongs to. Any tips?

A:

In QGIS, you find Join attributes by location and Add polygon attributes to points which both do what you want.
I just published a comparison of the two tools.

