{
  "place_id": "shumilino#8072_11645",
  "wikidata": "Q304613",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Шуміліна",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Shumilina",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English reference spelling; Russian-based forms and dated national-system spellings are distinguished below.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Shumilino",
          "why": "Russian-based English form of Шумилино."
        },
        {
          "name": "Šumilina",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization (2007), recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, not a claim that Belarus retained these domestic rules after 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Szumilino",
          "why": "Polish historical name quoted in English regional or genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Szumielino",
          "why": "Polish-style historical spelling indexed in English naming data; prose frequency uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Choumilina",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles cited in English; not a claimed common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Шуміліна",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Choumilina",
      "why": "French geographical reference spelling, using French transcription conventions.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Choumilino",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French locality reference; retained for older French-source matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Šumilina",
          "why": "Belarusian Latin spelling indexed in French naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Shumilina",
          "why": "English international spelling for matching sources quoted in French; independent French prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sumilina",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šumilina for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Shumilina is a settlement west of Vitebsk in northern Belarus. It developed as a local railway and administrative centre.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Supplied settlement Q304613 retained. Short English Shumilina leads to surname disambiguation Q4527730; the correct settlement article is Shumilina, Belarus. Belarusian 2007/UN 2012 labels are dated; domestic rules changed in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumilina ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choumilina ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumilina,_Belarus ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шуміліно ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шуміліна.",
  "rank": 1328,
  "slug": "shumilina"
}