{
  "place_id": "osypovychi#7961_11590",
  "wikidata": "Q742161",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Асіповічы",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Asipovichy",
      "why": "Established English Belarusian-based form following BGN/PCGN 1979 conventions; retained alongside Russian Osipovichi.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Asipovičy",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization revised in 2007 and UN-approved in 2012; historical standard, superseded domestically in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Osipovichi",
          "why": "Russian-based English form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ossipovichi",
          "why": "Russian-based variant with doubled s."
        },
        {
          "name": "Osipovitchi",
          "why": "Older French-influenced spelling in English historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Осиповичи",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Assipovitchy",
      "why": "French Belarusian-based transcription with ss and tch; French geographical references contrast it with Russian-based Ossipovitchi.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ossipovitchi",
          "why": "Russian-based French geographical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Asipovichy",
          "why": "International English-oriented spelling in French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Asipovičy",
          "why": "Scholarly and cartographic form used in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Asipovichy is a town in Mogilev Region in Belarus. It developed as a railway junction connecting routes towards Minsk, Gomel and Mogilev.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Belarusian and Russian forms refer to the same town; no recent renaming is asserted. Input label 'Осиповичі' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.",
  "rank": 356,
  "slug": "asipovichy"
}