{
  "place_id": "slonim#7949_11406",
  "wikidata": "Q863576",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Слонім",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Slonim",
      "why": "Established English form of the Belarusian town name.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Słonim",
          "why": "Polish historical spelling, used in English discussions of the Commonwealth, interwar Poland and Jewish history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Слонім",
          "why": "Belarusian Cyrillic spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Слоним",
          "why": "Russian Cyrillic spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Slonim",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; conventional French reference form, without an article.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Słonim",
          "why": "Polish historical spelling retained in French references to Polish and Jewish sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Slonim is a town on the Shchara in Grodno Region in western Belarus. Its synagogues and churches reflect the varied communities of an old trading town.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Slonim is also the output of the Belarusian national 2007/UN 2012 geographical system; no spelling change is implied by the competing systems.",
  "rank": 216,
  "slug": "slonim"
}