{
  "place_id": "ostrovets#8034_11441",
  "wikidata": "Q261024",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Астравец",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Astravyets",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English geographical spelling, preferred here to the Russian-mediated form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Astraviec",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012."
        },
        {
          "name": "Astravets",
          "why": "Simplified Belarusian-based international spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ostrovets",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling widely used in English nuclear-energy reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ostrowiec",
          "why": "Polish historical name; requires disambiguation from towns in Poland."
        },
        {
          "name": "Астравец",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Astraviets",
      "why": "French reference spelling, adapted to French transcription conventions; usage is not uniform across publishers.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ostrovets",
          "why": "Russian-based name commonly retained in French nuclear-energy reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ostroviets",
          "why": "French rendering of the Russian name, with ie representing the vowel sequence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ostrowiec",
          "why": "Polish historical form in French borderland histories."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Astravyets is a town in Hrodna Region near the Lithuanian border. The Belarusian nuclear power plant was built nearby, bringing major changes to the town and its surroundings.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. The dated 2007/UN 2012 geographical system is distinguished from Belarus’s replacement domestic rules of 2023.",
  "rank": 646,
  "slug": "astravyets"
}