{
  "place_id": "kopyshche#7997_11537",
  "wikidata": "Q6501893",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Копішча",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kopishcha",
      "why": "English rendering from Belarusian, chosen alongside the Russian-based and national-system forms supplied below.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kopishche",
          "why": "Russian-based form from Копище, widely used in accounts of Minsk’s suburbs."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kopišča",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, endorsed by the UN in 2012 but superseded domestically in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Копище",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Копішча",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, supplied for quotations and bilingual source matching."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kopichtcha",
      "why": "Editorial French transcription of Belarusian Копішча using ch and chtch. No settled French name has been verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kopishcha",
          "why": "International Belarusian-based spelling usable in French maps."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kopishcha is a village adjoining the north-eastern edge of Minsk in Belarus. New apartment districts, including Novaya Borovaya, have given it a strongly urban character.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "low",
  "notes": "Still described as a village in the consulted sources, despite its urban development. French main is an editorial transcription with ch and chtch, not an attested government form. https://nashaniva.com/398623 ; https://spadchyna.info/all/belarus/miensk-region/ . Input label 'Копище' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 406,
  "slug": "kopishcha"
}