{
  "place_id": "hatovo#7988_11535",
  "wikidata": "Q3917600",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Гатава",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hatava",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English geographical spelling, preferred here to the Russian-mediated form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gatovo",
          "why": "Russian-based name common in maps and addresses."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гатава",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hatava",
      "why": "Same Belarusian-based name as in English; used editorially here because no established French exonym was verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gatovo",
          "why": "Russian-based name retained in French map and address searches; no distinct established French exonym has been verified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hatava is an agrotown south of Minsk in Belarus. Housing and industrial premises place it within the capital’s wider suburban area.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This is the Minsk-area agrotown. An established French preference has not been verified. 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": 691,
  "slug": "hatava"
}