{
  "place_id": "yonava#8059_11348",
  "wikidata": "Q743218",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Jonava",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Jonava",
      "why": "Lithuanian Latin-script name used in English, with native diacritics retained.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Janów",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in regional and Jewish histories; ambiguous without Lithuanian context."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yanov",
          "why": "Yiddish- or Russian-mediated form used in English Jewish historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janowo",
          "why": "Historical Polish variant in older geographical sources."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Jonava",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Janów",
          "why": "Historical Polish form relevant to French accounts of Lithuania."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yanov",
          "why": "Jewish historical form; ambiguous without the Lithuanian context."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Jonava is a city in central Lithuania on the Neris, north-east of Kaunas. It grew as a trading town and became closely associated with the nearby Achema fertilizer works.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The industrial works are near the city. Janów and Yanov are shared by many places. Input label 'Йонава' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form. Less common cross-language forms are for historical or regional text recognition, not recommendations for ordinary modern prose.",
  "rank": 375,
  "slug": "jonava"
}