{
  "place_id": "lesnoi#8000_11538",
  "wikidata": "Q3919901",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Лесной",
  "forms": [
    {
      "name": "Лясны",
      "kind": "official_local",
      "system": "",
      "lang": "",
      "why": "Belarusian official name of the settlement near Barauliany, northeast of Minsk.",
      "used_in": [
        "be"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Liasny",
      "kind": "national_romanization",
      "system": "Belarusian national romanization (2007; UN adoption 2013)",
      "lang": "",
      "why": "Romanization under the requested 2007 geographical system; the same spelling is possible in Belarusian Łacinka.",
      "used_in": [
        "en",
        "fr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lyasny",
      "kind": "romanization",
      "system": "BGN/PCGN Belarusian (1979)",
      "lang": "",
      "why": "Belarusian-based geographical romanization also used in international gazetteers; there is no established independent English exonym.",
      "used_in": [
        "en",
        "fr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lâsny",
      "kind": "romanization",
      "system": "ISO 9 (1995)",
      "lang": "",
      "why": "Reversible transliteration of Belarusian Лясны, with â representing я.",
      "used_in": [
        "en"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Лесной",
      "kind": "exonym",
      "system": "",
      "lang": "ru",
      "why": "Russian co-official-language name, used in local addresses and Russian-language geographical sources; this spelling is also the exact input label.",
      "used_in": [
        "ru",
        "uk"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lesnoy",
      "kind": "exonym",
      "system": "",
      "lang": "ru",
      "why": "BGN/PCGN Russian romanization of Лесной, widely used for the settlement in international maps and addresses.",
      "used_in": [
        "en",
        "fr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lesnoi",
      "kind": "exonym",
      "system": "",
      "lang": "ru",
      "why": "Alternative Latin rendering of the Russian name, with final i rather than y.",
      "used_in": [
        "en"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lesnoï",
      "kind": "exonym",
      "system": "",
      "lang": "ru",
      "why": "French-style transcription of the Russian name; included as a transcription, with a settled local French usage unverified.",
      "used_in": [
        "fr"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lesny",
      "kind": "variant",
      "system": "",
      "lang": "",
      "why": "Simplified Russian-mediated spelling found in reporting about the Minsk suburbs; less precise than Lesnoy or the Belarusian-based forms.",
      "used_in": [
        "en"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Liasny",
      "why": "Uses the requested Belarusian national romanization because no established English exonym is known.",
      "alternatives": []
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Liasny",
      "why": "Same as in English; a settled independent French exonym has not been verified.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Liasny is a settlement in Belarus northeast of Minsk, beside Barauliany. Apartment housing and nearby medical institutions give this part of the Minsk suburbs an urban character.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The input label Лесной is Russian in spelling, although supplied as the Ukrainian index label. The national romanization follows the requested 2007 system, rather than Belarus’s replacement rules introduced in 2023.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 2,
  "rank": 504,
  "slug": "liasny"
}