{
  "place_id": "solihorsk#7932_11530",
  "wikidata": "Q201393",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Салігорск",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Salihorsk",
      "why": "Established English spelling of the current city name; Belarusian and Russian source forms are distinguished in the alternatives.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Soligorsk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling, found in older international references and Russian-language source citations; retained as a recognition form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Solihorsk",
          "why": "Alternative international spelling used in references to this place; not a separate settlement or a renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Салігорск",
          "why": "Local name in its original Cyrillic script, useful for identifying quotations, signs and local sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Salìgorsk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration. Standard-derived search form, not independently attested here as an English or French place-name spelling; medium confidence in textual use."
        },
        {
          "name": "Солигорск",
          "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": "Salihorsk",
      "why": "Graphie française du nom actuel de la ville ; les formes issues du biélorusse et du russe sont distinguées dans les variantes.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Soligorsk",
          "why": "Graphie issue du russe, présente dans les anciennes références internationales et les citations de sources russophones ; forme conservée pour l’identification."
        },
        {
          "name": "Solihorsk",
          "why": "Autre graphie internationale employée pour cette localité ; il ne s’agit ni d’une autre localité ni d’un changement de nom."
        },
        {
          "name": "Салігорск",
          "why": "Nom local en alphabet cyrillique, utile pour identifier les citations, les panneaux et les sources locales."
        },
        {
          "name": "Salìgorsk",
          "why": "Translittération caractère par caractère ISO 9:1995. Forme de recherche déduite de la norme, sans attestation indépendante ici comme nom anglais ou français ; certitude moyenne quant à l’usage textuel."
        },
        {
          "name": "Солигорск",
          "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": "Salihorsk is an industrial city in Minsk Region, south of Slutsk. It developed around the extraction and processing of potash, with a reservoir on the Sluch River nearby.",
  "about_fr": "Salihorsk est une ville industrielle de la région de Minsk, au sud de Sloutsk. Son développement est lié à l’extraction et au traitement de la potasse, près d’un réservoir sur la Sloutch.",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Salihorsk is also the 2007 Belarusian national/UN 2012 spelling and the BGN/PCGN 1979 spelling. The Ukrainian input form was not treated as the local name. Formal table-derived aliases are labelled separately from attested prose spellings. Coverage of romanization systems and historical aliases is not exhaustive.",
  "rank": 103,
  "slug": "salihorsk"
}