{
  "place_id": "syndzhera#7606_11609",
  "wikidata": "Q2628984",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Sîngera",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sîngera",
      "why": "Romanian Latin-script name used locally and retained in English; no Cyrillic romanization is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sângera",
          "why": "Romanian orthographic variant using â within the word; not a municipal renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Singera",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of the municipal Romanian spelling. Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sîngera",
      "why": "Same form as in English, chosen for French cross-language retrieval; no established separate French exonym was verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sângera",
          "why": "Romanian spelling variant for French searches; no separate French exonym was verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Singera",
          "why": "Romanian form without circumflex, useful in French searches and addresses. Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sîngera is a town southeast of Chișinău in Moldova, within the capital's municipality. It lies on the Ișnovăț River near the international airport.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sîngera is the municipal spelling chosen here; Sângera follows the alternative Romanian î/â convention. No dedicated French exonym was verified.",
  "rank": 794,
  "slug": "singera"
}