{
  "place_id": "yurmala#8164_11317",
  "wikidata": "Q178382",
  "country": "LV",
  "local_name": "Jūrmala",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Jūrmala",
      "why": "Latvian official Latin-script name; retain its macron in edited English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Jurmala",
          "why": "Common diacritic-free international spelling of the Latvian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rīgas Jūrmala",
          "why": "Name of the predecessor municipality, 1920–1946; it covered only part of the present city."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rigas Jurmala",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of the predecessor municipality’s Latvian name, 1920–1946."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rigasche Strand",
          "why": "Historical German name for the Riga seaside resort area; its extent need not match the present municipality."
        },
        {
          "name": "Рижское взморье",
          "why": "Historical Russian description of the Riga seaside resort area, not a Latin-script name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Юрмала",
          "why": "Russian Cyrillic form of the present name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Jūrmala",
      "why": "Same Latvian spelling as in English; French travel sources also omit the macron. No article forms part of the name.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Jurmala",
          "why": "Common form without the Latvian macron in French travel writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Iourmala",
          "why": "French transcription through Russian, attested in Courrier international and French geographical research; secondary to the Latvian form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rigasche Strand",
          "why": "German historical resort-area name, relevant in French accounts of Baltic tourism before the modern city."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rigastrand",
          "why": "German historical form specifically recorded in French geographical references; its resort-area scope differs from the modern municipality."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Jūrmala is a Latvian seaside city stretching along the Gulf of Riga, west of Riga. Sandy beaches, pine woods and wooden resort houses are characteristic of its neighbourhoods.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The modern city includes older resort settlements such as Majori and Ķemeri; their names are not synonyms for the whole city. Historical resort-area labels have variable boundaries.",
  "rank": 202,
  "slug": "jurmala"
}