{
  "place_id": "maloryta#7877_11337",
  "wikidata": "Q656579",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Маларыта",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Malaryta",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English form used in English geographical reference material; Russian-based names remain alternative search forms. ISO 9:1995 gives the same string. The Belarusian national system of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012, gives the same string; domestic rules changed in 2023.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Malorita",
          "why": "Russian-based name used in English regional reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Małoryta",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English accounts of the border region."
        },
        {
          "name": "Маларыта",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, useful in English quotations of local sources."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Malaryta",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Malorita",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French entry."
        },
        {
          "name": "Małoryta",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly given in French reference material."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Malaryta is a district town southeast of Brest in southwestern Belarus. Its name comes from the Ryta River.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The input uses Ukrainian Малорита; local Belarusian is Маларыта. Malorita is Russian-based.",
  "rank": 782,
  "slug": "malaryta"
}