{
  "place_id": "skuodas#8125_11196",
  "wikidata": "Q1004290",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Skuodas",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Skuodas",
      "why": "Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Szkudy",
          "why": "Polish historical or community name quoted in regional references; independent English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Schoden",
          "why": "German historical name indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Skouds",
          "why": "Samogitian local name explicitly quoted in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Johannesberg",
          "why": "Historical name given to the new town after it received town privileges; not every use covers the older settlement."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Skuodas",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Schoden",
          "why": "German historical form recorded in French naming data and locality history; not the current French heading."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Skuodas is a town in northwestern Lithuania near the Latvian border. It lies in the historical region of Samogitia by the Bartuva River.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Historical Johannesberg refers especially to the new town associated with town privileges. No claim that all historic components have identical boundaries. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuodas ; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1004290 ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuodas.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1692,
  "slug": "skuodas"
}