Python script which uses shapely and and pyshp libraries
http://code.google.com/p/pyshp/
http://toblerity.github.com/shapely/
Use pyshp to import my shapefile (.shp), which I provide. The shapefile has 200 multipolygons with a “name” attribute, you can read with pyshp read() function
Input to script is an (x,y) coordinate
Use shapely contains() function on the shape objects derived above to see whether the (x,y) point is inside any of the multipolygons, and if true, the name of the …
