{
  "place_id": "bokhnia#7776_11135",
  "wikidata": "Q815903",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Bochnia",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bochnia",
      "why": "Polish Latin-script name used in English; the native spelling is retained rather than retransliterating the Ukrainian input label.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Salzberg",
          "why": "Historical German name, including Habsburg-era cadastral maps and German occupation documents; not confined to the Nazi period."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokhnya",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived spelling used in English Jewish local-history and cemetery references."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bochnia",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Salzberg",
          "why": "German historical name relevant to French reading of Galician and wartime documents; not the current French name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bochnia is a town east of Kraków in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Its historic salt mine forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage property shared with Wieliczka.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The World Heritage property combines the two salt mines with the saltworks castle at Wieliczka. Input label 'Бохня' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form. Historical German name checked against the 1847 cadastral map: https://maproom.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/bochnia-salzberg-1847/ .",
  "rank": 358,
  "slug": "bochnia"
}