{
  "place_id": "kopyl#7952_11505",
  "wikidata": "Q200950",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Капыль",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kapyl",
      "why": "Conventional Belarusian-based English form; the 2007 national geographical romanization is listed separately where it differs.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kopyl",
          "why": "Russian-based form used in English geographical and historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kapyĺ",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, not a claim that domestic rules remained unchanged after 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kopyl’",
          "why": "Russian-based form retaining the final soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kopyl'",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of Kopyl’."
        },
        {
          "name": "Капыль",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling for matching local source titles and addresses cited in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Копыль",
          "why": "Russian-script name recorded in local/reference sources, retained for matching quotations in English; not a preferred English spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kapyl",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kopyl",
          "why": "Russian-derived spelling explicitly given alongside Kapyl in French reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kapyl'",
          "why": "Soft-sign spelling quoted as a Belarusian Latin form in the French reference entry."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kapyl is a town southwest of Minsk in central Belarus. It is associated with the Belarusian writer Tsishka Hartny and preserves a local history museum.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The Belarusian 2007 geographical system is identified by date; no claim that it remains the unchanged domestic standard after 2023. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapyl ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapyl.",
  "rank": 997,
  "slug": "kapyl"
}