{
  "place_id": "kirovsk#7959_11637",
  "wikidata": "Q955115",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Кіраўск",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kirawsk",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English reference form; Russian-based and dated national-system forms are listed separately where different.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kirovsk",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; many other towns share the name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kiraŭsk",
          "why": "Belarusian geographical romanization of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, not a claim that domestic rules remained unchanged after 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Кіраўск",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kirawsk",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kirovsk",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kiraŭsk",
          "why": "Belarusian Latin form indexed in French naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirausk",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Kiraŭsk for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kirawsk is a town northeast of Babruysk in Belarus's Mahilioŭ Region. Its Soviet-era name commemorates Sergei Kirov.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Belarusian 2007/UN 2012 system labels are dated; Belarus changed its domestic rules in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirawsk ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirawsk.",
  "rank": 1249,
  "slug": "kirawsk"
}