{
  "place_id": "sillamiae#8299_11543",
  "wikidata": "Q207748",
  "country": "EE",
  "local_name": "Sillamäe",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sillamäe",
      "why": "The Estonian Latin-script name, retained in English; no romanization is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sillamäggi",
          "why": "Historical Germanised spelling quoted in English descriptions of the town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sillamägi",
          "why": "Historical Germanised variant quoted in the English reference entry."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sillamyae",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling of Силламяэ."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sillamae",
          "why": "Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sillamäe",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sillamäggi",
          "why": "Germanised historical name for French Baltic-history searches; prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sillamyae",
          "why": "Russian-based international search spelling; not the current French main."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sillamae",
          "why": "Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sillamäe is a town on the Gulf of Finland in northeastern Estonia, at the mouth of the Sõtke River. Its Soviet-era industrial history includes uranium processing, and its centre retains a distinctive ensemble of architecture from that period.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 796,
  "slug": "sillamae"
}