{
  "place_id": "utena#8083_11422",
  "wikidata": "Q189157",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Utena",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Utena",
      "why": "Lithuanian Latin-script name used in English, with native diacritics retained.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Uciana",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English regional and Jewish histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Utyany",
          "why": "Russian-based historical name in English imperial references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Utyan",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived form in Jewish genealogical references."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Utena",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Uciana",
          "why": "Polish historical name relevant to French accounts of Lithuania."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Utena is a city in north-eastern Lithuania in the Aukštaitija region. It is a regional service and industrial centre in a landscape of lakes and wooded hills.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Lithuanian Utena needs no romanization. Input label 'Утена' 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": 398,
  "slug": "utena"
}