{
  "place_id": "lunynets#7902_11489",
  "wikidata": "Q956132",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Лунінец",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Luninets",
      "why": "Recognizable English spelling, also matching romanization of Russian Лунинец; Belarusian-based Luninyets and national-system Luninec are supplied separately.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Luninyets",
          "why": "Belarusian-based English spelling also used in reference works."
        },
        {
          "name": "Luninec",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, UN-endorsed in 2012 and superseded domestically in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Łuniniec",
          "why": "Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лунинец",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лунінец",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, supplied for quotations and bilingual source matching."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Louninets",
      "why": "Established French rendering with ou, also used in the French-language EU Official Journal in 2022.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Luninets",
          "why": "International spelling usable in French reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Łuniniec",
          "why": "Polish historical name in French accounts of interwar eastern Poland."
        },
        {
          "name": "Luninec",
          "why": "Local Latin-script form quoted in cartographic contexts."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Luninets is a town in Brest Region in southern Belarus, near the Pripyat lowlands. Railway building made it an important junction in the Polesia region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Louninets is used in the French-language EU Official Journal: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A053%3AFULL . Input label 'Лунинець' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 429,
  "slug": "luninets"
}