{
  "place_id": "hantsevychi#7931_11468",
  "wikidata": "Q956470",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Ганцавічы",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hantsavichy",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English form used in English geographical reference material; Russian-based names remain alternative search forms.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gantsevichi",
          "why": "Russian-based English name, given alongside Hantsavichy in English reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hancavičy",
          "why": "Belarusian national system of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012; Belarusian domestic rules changed in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gantsevitchi",
          "why": "French transcription of Russian Ганцевичи."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hancewicze",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English regional history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gancavìčy",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Belarusian name; standard-derived bibliographic retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ганцавічы",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, useful in English quotations of local sources."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hantsavitchy",
      "why": "French reference spelling, using tch for the affricate written ch in English. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gantsevichi",
          "why": "Russian-based international search form; French usually writes Gantsevitchi."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hancavičy",
          "why": "Belarusian Latin form explicitly given in the French entry; French running text uses Hantsavitchy."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gantsevitchi",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in French reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hancewicze",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly given in the French entry."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hantsavichy is a district town in the Brest region of southern Belarus. It lies in Polesia and developed as a railway settlement.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The input uses Ukrainian Ганцевичі. Local Belarusian is Ганцавічы; do not copy the unrelated Драгічын printed in one French reference page. Hancavičy is the 2007 national/UN 2012 form, subject to the later Belarusian policy change.",
  "rank": 759,
  "slug": "hantsavichy"
}