{
  "place_id": "novopolotsk#8085_11592",
  "wikidata": "Q750424",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Наваполацк",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Navapolatsk",
      "why": "Established English spelling of the current city name; Belarusian and Russian source forms are distinguished in the alternatives.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Navapolack",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012. This historical standard is distinguished from the replacement domestic instruction of 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novopolotsk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling, found in older international references and Russian-language source citations; retained as a recognition form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Наваполацк",
          "why": "Local name in its original Cyrillic script, useful for identifying quotations, signs and local sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новополоцк",
          "why": "Russian-language source name in its original Cyrillic script, supplied to recognise quotations and multilingual records; not an English or French spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Navapolatsk",
      "why": "Graphie française du nom actuel de la ville ; les formes issues du biélorusse et du russe sont distinguées dans les variantes.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Navapolack",
          "why": "Romanisation géographique nationale biélorusse de 2007, recommandée par l’ONU en 2012 ; cette norme est distinguée de l’instruction nationale qui l’a remplacée en 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novopolotsk",
          "why": "Graphie issue du russe, présente dans les anciennes références internationales et les citations de sources russophones ; forme conservée pour l’identification."
        },
        {
          "name": "Наваполацк",
          "why": "Nom local en alphabet cyrillique, utile pour identifier les citations, les panneaux et les sources locales."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новополоцк",
          "why": "Nom russe dans son alphabet cyrillique, fourni pour reconnaître les citations et les documents multilingues ; ce n’est pas une graphie anglaise ou française."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Navapolatsk is an industrial city beside the Western Dvina in northern Belarus, close to Polatsk. It grew around oil refining and petrochemical production.",
  "about_fr": "Navapolatsk est une ville industrielle du nord de la Biélorussie, au bord de la Dvina occidentale et près de Polatsk. Elle s’est développée autour du raffinage pétrolier et de la pétrochimie.",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Navapolatsk is the selected Belarusian-based international form; Novopolotsk reflects Russian. Do not conflate this modern city with neighbouring Polatsk. Formal table-derived aliases are labelled separately from attested prose spellings. Coverage of romanization systems and historical aliases is not exhaustive.",
  "rank": 108,
  "slug": "navapolatsk"
}