{
  "place_id": "balozhi#8159_11339",
  "wikidata": "Q757043",
  "country": "LV",
  "local_name": "Baloži",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Baloži",
      "why": "Official Latvian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rollbusch",
          "why": "Historical German name explicitly used in English Baltic geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Balozi",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Baloži for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Baloži",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rollbusch",
          "why": "German historical name explicitly recorded in the French town introduction."
        },
        {
          "name": "Balozi",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Baloži for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Baloži is a town just south of Riga in Latvia. It developed around peat extraction and now forms part of the capital's suburban area.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baloži ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baloži ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Баложі ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Балажы.",
  "rank": 1368,
  "slug": "balozi"
}