{
  "place_id": "vileika#8026_11495",
  "wikidata": "Q181632",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Вілейка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vileyka",
      "why": "Established English rendering from Belarusian; retained for recognition alongside Russian-based and national-system variants.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vilejka",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization revised in 2007 and UN-approved in 2012; historical standard, superseded domestically in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vileika",
          "why": "Alternative English romanization, also used in older geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vilyeyka",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN-style Russian romanization of Вилейка."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wilejka",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English histories and genealogy."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vialejka",
          "why": "Traditional Belarusian variant based on Вялейка."
        },
        {
          "name": "Вилейка",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Vileïka",
      "why": "Established French form with eï marking the glide; French historical writing also uses Polish Wilejka.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vileika",
          "why": "French plain-letter spelling without the diaeresis."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wilejka",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in French accounts of the former Wilno region."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vilejka",
          "why": "Scholarly and cartographic form in French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vialeika",
          "why": "Belarusian alternative name rendered in French geographical references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vileyka is a town in Minsk Region in Belarus on the Viliya river. A large reservoir nearby forms part of the water-supply system serving Minsk.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "French forms checked at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vile%C3%AFka . Belarusian Вялейка is an alternative linguistic form; no recent renaming is asserted.",
  "rank": 392,
  "slug": "vileyka"
}