{
  "place_id": "shalchyninkai#8017_11410",
  "wikidata": "Q391011",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Šalčininkai",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Šalčininkai",
      "why": "Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Soleczniki",
          "why": "Polish community and historical name explicitly used in English accounts of the Vilnius region."
        },
        {
          "name": "Šalčininkai Didieji",
          "why": "Expanded Lithuanian name used before the short name was adopted; not a separate modern settlement."
        },
        {
          "name": "Salcininkai",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Salcininkai Didieji",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai Didieji for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Šalčininkai",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Soleczniki",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly quoted in the French locality reference."
        },
        {
          "name": "Salcininkai",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Šalčininkai is a town south of Vilnius near Lithuania's border with Belarus. It is an administrative centre in a district with a large Polish-speaking population.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Šalčininkai is the present Lithuanian civic main. Polish Soleczniki remains a community name, not solely an obsolete administrative label; the district has a large Polish-speaking population. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šalčininkai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šalčininkai ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шальчинінкай ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Салечнікі.",
  "rank": 1360,
  "slug": "salcininkai"
}